Julie Plec Quotes

Scripts don't get movies made.

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I'm able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

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

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Movies are an expensive business.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.