Quotes for film-makers

[miker]

Post here any paraphrased little gems you have heard or read about, such as:

"I'm here to make movies, not friends!" - Ridley Scott

"If this looks like a bunch of men running around in rubber suits then we're fucked" - James Cameron

"Technology won't save us" - George Lucas

Zemeckis: "How do you get to be a director?"
Lucas: "Somehow"

Anymore for anymore?

[eddie]

'Your motivation is your paycheck'
Hitchcock.
(not that useful though when everyone involved in the film is just doing you a favour!)

[Chance1234]

Through my story boards i have already directed the film before its shot, in fact i dont even have to be there

Hithcock again

[cash]

am not sure if this is word for word but you get the genral jist of it.

In Heaven -
"Hey is that James Cameron over there?"
"No its just God thinking his Cameron!"

- Quentin Tarantino

[miker]

Seriously paraphrased from memory:

"Pain is temporary, movies are forever" - Michael J. Fox on the scene in Back to the Future where his head hits the tarmac. Might explain the state he's in now...

"Some kid with a camcorder is gonna come up with a masterpiece" - Francis Coppola

"You take your job seriously, you don't take yourself seriously" - Clint Eastwood on directing

"If you don't love it, it just aint worth it" - George Lucas on film making

[Chance1234]

if i have to hit an actor to make him cry then so be it " - guy who directed Excorcist

[Mark Jury]

"God help me, I love it so much"

-- Steven Alan Spielberg

[N. Foster Tyler]

"Be normal in life, so that you can be crazy in your art."

-Billy Bob Thornton

[Jon Taylor]

"If you can drive a car, you can direct a movie" John Landis.

"Concentrate on the story, leave the details to others - and sit down whenever you can" John Huston.

"In all my films, there's three maybe four minutes of real cinema" Akira Kurosawa.

"I consider myself just another member of the crew, the highest paid member of the crew" William Friedkin (the bloke who directed "The Exorcist").

[Them1tch]

"Don't hit actors, it fucks continuity"
them1tch (Paul Mitchell)