Harrison Ford Quotes

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

Most of my films have been very character driven.

'Raging Bull' was just a dream to work on, but it took a lot of work to get all those fights to work right and incorporate them properly into the story.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

Every film starts with the script.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.