Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

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.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

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

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

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

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

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

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.