Rick Moranis Quotes

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.