Amisha Patel Quotes

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

I want to make a movie with Al Pacino someday.

I love having made a movie.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.