Christian Bale Quotes

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I love making movies.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I always enjoy shooting for all my films.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.

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

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.