Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

150 shooting days is quite normal, which is not the case in Hollywood, as I am told. Most of the big films there are done in 70 or 80 days.

We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

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.

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

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

When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

I made 'Super' for $3 million, and that was filmed in 24 days. And that $3 million dollars went to a lot of things other than what shows up on screen. Once you get done with the unions and everything else, that's just, like, the basic cost of what you can make a movie for.

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.