Dave Foley Quotes

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

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.

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 long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

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

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

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.

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

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

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.