Paul Michael Glaser Quotes

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

It takes a long time to put a movie together. It can take years.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

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.

I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

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

If no producer, no movie.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

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

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

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

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

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.

It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.

It's hard to get movies made.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.