Michael Douglas Quotes

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

J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

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.

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could've imagined because the screenplay was so good.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie!

Ever since my first film, I had more producers than scripts. And I've realised that a certain project requires a certain kind of producer for it to be made well.

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.