Yami Gautam Quotes

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

It takes a long time to put a movie together. It can take years.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

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.

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

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

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.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

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?'