Ashley Judd Quotes

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

A good film is a good film.

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

I'm just a sucker for a good script and people that are passionate about it. I love independents.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

After 'Raees,' I used to wonder how I'd feel working on another film and to do this and still enjoy it - I know now I like acting; I enjoy it.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.