Kian Lawley Quotes

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

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

When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'

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.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

My creative team filters the scripts before they reach me and a few others. We evaluate them, ponder over the budget, and think of various possibilities to get the viewer excited.

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

Our experience on 'Avatar' heavily influenced how we approached 'The Dragon Prince' and how we built our team.

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.

A product can turn bad, not the production. When you start a film, you feel it will be great. But sometimes, as it progresses, it fails somewhere. You can't blame anyone for that. You can blame only your own intelligence!

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.