Kay Kay Menon Quotes

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I'm anxious to make another film.

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

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

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