Quotes About Greenlit

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

I was confident about the potential of 'Baaghi 2' when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.

When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.