James Costos Quotes

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

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.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

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

It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

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

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

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.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

I would love to produce a film.

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

It's such a drag to make a movie.

We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.