Tena Desae Quotes

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

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

It takes a long time to get a film made.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.

As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.

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

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

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

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

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 would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can't be.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a business. You want everyone to make money.

There's so many people involved in making a film.