Eddie Murphy Quotes

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I would love to produce a film.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.