Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

Movies are an expensive business.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

Scripts don't get movies made.

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Big feature films are another world.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

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

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.