Michael Patrick Jann Quotes

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the industry in one capacity or another. I'm not sure where just yet. I kind of stepped away from it for a few years. I thought I was done with it. But I grew up in it. It's such a big part of my life.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

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

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

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.

Any film you make is a crap shoot.

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.