Michelle Phillips Quotes

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

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.

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

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

It's hard to get movies made.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

If no producer, no movie.

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.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

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

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

It's always exciting starting a new film.

You know in Hollywood, everything is more talk than action. Every project takes a long time to get off the ground.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

I would love to produce a film.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

It's such a drag to make a movie.