Alex Pettyfer Quotes

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I make more movies than I see.