Lana Wachowski Quotes

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

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

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.