I’ve always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that’s getting less and less white. – Jose Antonio Vargas
When you make a film, it’s a bet. You don’t know how the film is going to be, anyway. – Juliette Binoche
Nobody’s ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren’t expecting some return on their dough. – Johnny Depp
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don’t necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. – John Hurt
I’m really proud of ‘Cars.’ ‘Cars,’ when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film. – John Lasseter
I joke and I say, ‘I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that’s grounded again.’ – James Wan
I enjoy editing when I’m directing, but when someone else is directing, that’s their film to cut. – Jason Bateman
Normally with film, it’s normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere. – Jane Goldman
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. – John Updike
There’s two aspects of film crafting that I’m very strict about, and that’s how I move my camera and where I cut the film. – James Wan