Juliette Binoche Quotes

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

I am not bothered about money. I have no dreams that feature money. I dream only of good cinema and good scripts.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

Filmmaking is a gamble.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.