William Friedkin Quotes

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

I know that Madonna is not a first-time filmmaker, but I have worked with a lot of first time filmmakers and I have worked with a lot of inexperienced film directors so that never has particularly worried me - I find it quite exciting - but I have never worked with a director who has had so little experience of directing who was so prepared.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

The best education in film is to make one