Abi Morgan Quotes

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

Scripts don't get movies made.

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.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

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

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

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

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

It's hard to get movies made.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.