Chris Colfer Quotes

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

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

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 spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

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

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

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

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.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.