Good Filmmaking Quotes

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Films need a good direction, strong scripts, and hardworking actors. 'Wazir' has all of these.

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

The best movies are simple.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.

I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

For me, when I choose a script, I put my heart and soul into it, and that is exactly what I look for in a film. A good film is a good film. And if it's a bad film, irrespective of whether it's made 300 crores or 200 crores or any amount of money, it doesn't matter to me.

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.