Frances McDormand Quotes

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

I love the camaraderie that develops on film sets and ensemble casts. It's really special.

I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion's share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

You can't direct without a good crew.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

Umrika' was one of the most wonderful collaborations I had the privilege of being a part of.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.

The production scale of 'Okja,' which I had never experienced before, was jaw-dropping. Not only the actors but also all the staff were experts in their fields.

I don't want to boast about any contribution, but I was part of the group of people who toiled for the film industry.

My work on titles was a marvelous opportunity to learn about filmmaking. I think I touched on just about every aspect of the process, both creative and technical. And I worked with many wonderful people.