Duke Johnson Quotes

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

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

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'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.

It takes two years to make a good film.

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.

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

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

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

I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

I've directed independent film.

I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'

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.