Juno Temple Quotes

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

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

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

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

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

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 reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

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

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

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.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

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

I'm anxious to make another film.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.