Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

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.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

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

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same project.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.

If get an off on a Sunday, I try to keep my script-readings, meet my directors, plan film releases.

Ultimately, the goal is to be on an annual cycle - releasing a film every year.