Helen McCrory Quotes

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

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.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I love making movies.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

I couldn't do what I did in 'Deadpool' without 'Transporter,' categorically.

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.

I love having made a movie.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.

Be it cinema or TV, I have always been interested in taking up challenging projects.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.