Matt Barnes Quotes

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

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

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

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

I know nothing about making a movie.

It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time. It's really time-consuming, but it was great fun.