Production Delays Quotes

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Usually, I concentrate on work for a certain time, and finish when I clear a standard I set myself. But with 'Mononoke,' the production was so drawn out, it took forever to finish to my satisfaction.

There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.

I like to do one film at a time. But sometimes, when projects get delayed for reasons beyond my control, I juggle more than one.

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it's here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, "I want to do this, are you interested?" They'll answer the next day. With a movie, it's all, "Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah." They don't know what you're talking about, they don't care.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

Ninety per cent of the times, filming is a cakewalk. You start it, shoot it and release it without any major hassles. Then comes along one film that gets stuck or faces unusual problems.

With 'Agent Vinod', there was a lot of chaos with schedules and the film took a year and a half to shoot.

In Bollywood, it is common for shoots to have unexpected delays and go well into the night, but shoot schedules in the South are mostly wrapped up by evening, unless absolutely required.