Krysten Ritter Quotes

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Scripts don't get movies made.

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

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.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

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

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

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

I really enjoy the process of making movies. The only thing that really concerns me is working with great directors and actors, and that is fun and exciting.

Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.

Movies are an expensive business.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

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

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

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.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

I love making movies.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.