Jason Blum Quotes

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

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.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

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 love making movies.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to.

When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important.

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.

I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting.