All Quotes

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
‐‐ Barbara De Angelis

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
‐‐ Ken Jennings

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
‐‐ Eli Roth

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.
‐‐ Richard Donner

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

When you make a great record, it's around forever.
‐‐ Dean Ween

When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
‐‐ Jack Gleeson

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
‐‐ Simon Beaufoy

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.
‐‐ Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
‐‐ Gary Cole

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
‐‐ Brian De Palma

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.
‐‐ Glenn Ficarra

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
‐‐ Olivier Megaton

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

When you make a promise, keep it.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

When you make a TV show, they always say you're a guest in someone's home. Online, you're a guest in someone's face. So that's why I try to make it sound and look and feel very inviting and attractive, because I know that I'm in your face.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
‐‐ Anais Nin

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these albums, and I get on the road. It's not really a radio-driven thing. I get on the road, and I see my fans, and I touch each and every last one of them.
‐‐ Pusha T

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

When you make burgers, it's good to let them rest for a bit.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
‐‐ Brad Grey

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
‐‐ Bruce Weber

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
‐‐ Anne Rice

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
‐‐ Peggy Rathmann

When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.
‐‐ Sergey Galitsky

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
‐‐ Matthew Lawrence

When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
‐‐ Matthew Lawrence

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
‐‐ Flea

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
‐‐ Jared Leto

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
‐‐ Bartlett Sher

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
‐‐ Christopher Alexander