Jenny Han Quotes

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

It's hard to get movies made.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

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.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

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

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

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

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

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.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

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.

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

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

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

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

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.