Rob Thomas Quotes

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

I like working on big budget films.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.

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.

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

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

You know in Hollywood, everything is more talk than action. Every project takes a long time to get off the ground.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.