Morley Quotes

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

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

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.

I think, it's important to understand how to release a film.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

If I listen to 120 stories, I'd love 10 of them, seven would go on floors, four would get completed, three films will have the first copy ready, and one will release in theaters. This is how it has been for me.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

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 went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

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.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

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.