Production Challenges Quotes

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Having made other shows, the thing with 'Doctor Who' is that you're doing everything, all at once.

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

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

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

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

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.

'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.