Mandy Moore Quotes

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

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

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.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.

As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry.

It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

I would say the producer is the person who is there from the beginning to the end of the project. Either the person who creates, generates, or discovers the project, the person who performs many of the functions that are necessary to getting that project to the point where it is financed and then where it is in production, finished, marketed and released.

I want to be an executive producer.

I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the work.

People who support Kickstarter, we love them all. We're so grateful we have these products out here that allowed us to keep the copyrights and own them and everything, but people don't realize just how massive an undertaking it is.

I will direct films be it my own productions or outside. It's not like I am here only to direct Salman.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.