Aaron Johnson Quotes

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

It's not just the actor who's responsible for a film becoming a hit. A whole lot of work and people are involved in it.

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.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

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

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

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

I would love to make more films.

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

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.