Nick Nolte Quotes

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I like to just work with great directors.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

I love making movies.

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

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

It's not like I wakeup everyday and say, 'You know what, I need to do a horror film.' Statistically it's only like forty percent of my output but it's a great ride and the fan base is really dedicated and that's always cool. When you're lucky enough to be in a good one it's fantastic.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.