Amisha Patel Quotes

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

We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

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

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

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

I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

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