Michael Keaton Quotes

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

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.

Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

Friends of mine were the creators and executive producers of 'Damages,' people I knew from graduate school.

Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.

These actors who were in 'Dope' are the actors I want to continue to collaborate and make films with from here on out.

When artists find other artists that they love to work with, they more than likely will continue to work with them throughout their career.

In my industry who you know is very important.

Previously, I've worked with Bill Monahan on The Departed, he recently wrote American Desperado for us, and I just acted in a movie he directed called Mojave. So, yes, Jimmy, that goes without saying.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.

It doesn't mean I'm not interested in Hollywood. I like the way it operates; I like the people who are involved and the sense of possibility. But if I ever get back in, it's not going to be as an actress.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.