Frankie Valli Quotes

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

I love having made a movie.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

I had the greatest time of my life making 'Saw 3.' More fun than '2' for sure.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

I think I am filled with excitement when it comes to doing films.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.

My first film was 'Thiranottam.' I cannot discount that film because I got initiated into films with it.

Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.