Adriana Trigiani Quotes

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I would love to produce a film.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I've directed independent film.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

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

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.