Production Decision Quotes

I listened to the script of 'Carbon' at the end of 2014. I liked it the moment I heard it. I wanted to do it.

I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run and how the writing staff works, and sometimes you want to freshen the show. We just decided that it was time to do that on Community, and no disrespect to anyone.

At first, 'Westworld' was a project we had declined to do.

[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

When I made '1983,' there were a bunch of tracks that were in the early drafts that didn't make it because they just sounded like tracks for rappers, and that's not really the sound I look for when I produce my own albums.