Chris Pine Quotes

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

Film is very much about sitting around and talking about ideas, and that's the stuff that I love, but I haven't experienced that yet in the television that I've done so far. It makes me long for movies again because, creatively, I always have a much more fulfilling experience there.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.