Gautam Rode Quotes

I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.

I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

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

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

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.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.