Production Issues Quotes

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.

The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

I always knew the script was important, but I didn't realize how important until you get out there and just deal with the issues of putting a movie together. It's amazing that anything works, to be totally honest.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

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

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

When we do 'The Bachelor,' usually we'll tell the ladies two suitcases and that's it, cause we gotta travel around the world. Inevitably there are a few that will come with five, six suitcases and we're like, this doesn't work, this is not going to be a thing.