#makin

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#circumstances #constantly #difficult #difficult people #making

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#comes #feel #find #funny #humor

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#draw #fact #film #i #images

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#competing #cumulative #effect #entirely #every

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#anything #audience #constantly #executives #film

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. ↗

— Tim Burton

#actor #always #as far as #brilliant #edge

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever. ↗

— Jenson Button

#buttons #car #developing #different #even

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#everybody #fun #hit #loves #making

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#having #like #love #making #novel