Tasha Smith Quotes

It takes a long time to get a film made.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

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

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

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

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' - actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

We actually started shooting the 'Mockingjay' movies before 'Catching Fire' was released.

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

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

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

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

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

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.

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.

I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before they even begin filming, and frequently what is filmed is not what's in the script, because things change on the ground. An actor can't say a particular line. An actor will have a brainstorm and ad lib something utterly brilliant.

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

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.