Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you’ll get to do it forever. It’s a very lucky and privileged position to be in. ~ Diane Keaton, Ladies Home Journal, 1/04

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life. ~ Jerry Lewis, Reuters, 10/18/04

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself. That's why most of the time you make mistakes in life. Even in personal life. ~ Raja Sen

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal - like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. ~ Jack Black

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended. ~ Arthur Bloch

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific. ~ Gus Van Sant, 1993

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work--which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself--is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable. ~ Fredrico Fellini, Creators on Creating

At the end of the game, it's the director who will attract the actors and it's the script that will attract the director. It all starts with the screenplay. ~ David Brown, Cosmopolitan, 6/95

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility. ~ Haskell Wexler, Daily Variety, 1995

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. ~ Orson Welles

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community. ~ Bruce Willis

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. ~ Vilmos Zsigmond

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. ~ Mel Brooks

A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough. ~ Quentin Tarantino, EW, 6/16/04

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. ~ Roger Ebert

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene—written your first declarative sentence—then the rest flows. You’ve found the key to the whole scene. ~ John Huston, American Heritage, April/May 1992

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes. ~ Ken Burns

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