Quotes About Production

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.

When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition in their network, and they value production value as much as we did, and that that would be a perfect place to do a show of this scope and this ambition.

There's huge potential in China. They have about 50,000 screens and they need content, which we produce a lot.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

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

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

TNT is a really great company to do a show for. They really believe in their shows and give shows a lot of support. They have it all worked out before you start shooting. Everybody's on the same page.

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

I was in the choreography committee of my college, and we used to have an annual production and participate in inter-school competitions.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.