Mike Lookinland Quotes

As for me, my foundations were laid in the south. We did the post-production of 'Hum Paanch' in Chennai, with many technicians from here working for us.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I like working on big budget films.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.

'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a constant process of animatics and storyboards and consulting meetings, and it's a very mechanical process once the script is written. It's sprawling, and they're throwing money at it to get these things accomplished.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.