Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

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

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

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.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.