Maggie Carey Quotes

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I love having made a movie.

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

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I love making movies.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

I like to work in cinema everywhere.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.