Bennett Miller Quotes

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

It's hard to get movies made.

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

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

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

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

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

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

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

When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

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.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I'm anxious to make another film.