Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

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

Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands.

I definitely want to develop my own film or TV show at some point. I constantly strive to be as productive as possible, even when I'm not on set.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

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.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.