Rishi Kapoor Quotes

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

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

I know nothing about making a movie.

It takes two years to make a good film.

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.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

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.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

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.

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

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.