The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.
John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.
But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people.
I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.
The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.