Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

I read bits and pieces of 'Twilight' as we were making it.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

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.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

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.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.