Matt Bomer Quotes

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

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.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.

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.

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.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

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

I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day.

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

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.

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.

I really wanted 'NH10' to be made, and being associated with it eased the entire process.

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

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.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.