Greg Sestero Quotes

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

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.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

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.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

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

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.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

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.