Grant Heslov Quotes

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.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

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

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

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

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

It takes a long time to put a movie together. It can take years.

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

When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

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.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

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

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

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

It takes two years to make a good film.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

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.