Chaim Potok Quotes

I would love to produce a film.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

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.

I want to make my own movie.

I've directed independent film.

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.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

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

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

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.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

I'm anxious to make another film.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

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.

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

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

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.