Andre Balazs Quotes

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.

Production is not an easy game and I would want to be prepared with the right team, script, etc before getting into it.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

I want to make my own movie.