When R-rated comedies don`t work, the studios are really embarrassed by them. But a PG-13 comedy is actually less offensive than an episode of "Friends" (1994). I think people want something a little more adult.
Judd Apatow
Working for the studios is no piece of cake. But it`s a trade-off situation, whomever you work for. You have much less creative freedom working for big studios, but they really release your film. By comparison, you have enormous creative freedom working f...
John Carpenter
Working for the studios is no piece of cake. But it`s a trade-off situation, whomever you work for. You have much less creative freedom working for big studios, but they really release your film. By comparison, you have enormous creative freedom working f...
John Carpenter
I frankly am not on the same page with most of the films that are being made by the studios now. I certainly can`t think of any that I wish I had directed. This is not to degrade these pictures they`re making today, like Spider-Man 3 (2007). I`m just not ...
William Friedkin
What became of my money? Well, I was not used to wealth when the studios began dumping it into my lap. The dollars slipped through my fingers like sand and went to pay for automobiles, houses and one great item - clothing.
Mae Busch
[on the stress of delivering a summer movie in an era when release dates are often set by studios before a script is finished] It`s like you`re a runner and they beat the shit out of you and break your legs right before you`re supposed to race, and then t...
Tim Burton
As soon as I got off the boat, a man met me and said, `Will you please come up to the BBC studios and scream for us?` [On her trip to England in 1934] (2004)
Fay Wray
I`ve been killed often, on film, the stage, and the television tube. Studios insist the audience doesn`t like this. It`s been my experience that it makes them unhappy, but that`s not the same thing. In any event, they often attend those undertakings where...
Charlton Heston
Listen, I don`t know. It`s all theory. If I knew what I was talking about, I would be running the studio. That`s why they keep changing the heads of the studios: Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But I`m sure it has affected the quality of movies. Being sensiti...
Teri Garr
Directing is the provenance of younger guys. When I broke into film, I had no specific genius. I was just young. That`s how I did it. The studios feel that movies are all about a youth movement, and they always have. That`s why Orson Welles got to make Ci...
William Friedkin
[Studios] won`t hire you, even though you screwed the same whores and ate the bullet for it. Yet they pull you aside at a party and say you`re their hero for the things you do. [Variety (August 14, 1997)]
Charlie Sheen
The studios are no longer creative institutions. Their job is to raise a great deal of money for their shareholders, to hedge their bets about risk. All this does not spell creativity. You might as well be talking real estate. Thank goodness for the indep...
Kathleen Turner
I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, "If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward." And I just dropped them all over town. [He got a lot of] phone calls, peopl...
Laraine Day
[Talking about saving Elstree Studios]: "Hertsmere Council extended it a lifeline when it needed it most, and invested heavily. Now that they are seeking to pass on the ownership, I hope that an equally passionate and caring owner can be found; and help t...
Roger Moore
What the studios want now is "risk-free" films but with any sort of art you have to take risks. Not taking risks in art is like not having sex and then expecting there to be children.
Francis Ford Coppola
We were kind of disciples of Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix) and The Beatles, particularly the way they used studios almost like an instrument, but obviously we had more technology than they had had, so we could push things a lot further.
Brian May
[On directing and working for film studios] "They hire you and suddenly they don`t trust you. And you say `Well, why did you hire me?` and they say `We can`t tell you.`"
Rob Zombie
I don`t know where it`s coming from, but I think studios are finally realizing that people want to see girls who can kick butt as well as guys can.
Rebecca Romijn
When studios entrust big Hollywood blockbusters to strong, intelligent directors, like Steven Soderbergh or Sam Raimi [Spider-Mans 1 and 2] or Alfonso Cuarón [the latest Harry Potter], I say `God bless `em`, because those films will have legs and might st...
Alexander Payne
American studios give money to directors to educate them away from their creative fingerprint, even if that`s the reason they wanted them in the first place. I`ve avoided that fate by making movies here. You have to fight the urge to do a big action movie...
Lars von Trier
...it is show business and it`s more business now than it is show because all the studios now are owned by huge conglomerates and corporations, unlike the old Hollywood where everybody knew each other by their first names.
Joel Schumacher
Yeah, I`m seen by the studios as a genre guy. I`ve made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I`ll never be a member of that club.
George A. Romero
They [the studios] go through that process where they think you have to find the most famous people possible and then they go down the line. That`s a game I`m increasingly uninterested in - unless the most famous possible person also happens to be very co...
Alexander Payne
Now that I`m directing is where I`ve felt how difficult it is. Out of 200 or so movies made last year, only seven were directed by women. There`s been an enormous leap of women producers and heads of studios, but strangely enough, those women haven`t give...
JoBeth Williams
I just didn`t want to work on that movie in the type of environment that was being created because of the needs of the budget. I do charity work, but I don`t do charity work for major studios.
Russell Crowe
I`m willing to take less money and fourth billing and do interesting roles. I hate putting Limitations on myself. I don`t set out to sell popcorn or make money for the major studios. What I`d like is for my work to have meaning. - On his career choices (1...
Jason Patric
I`m stubborn. I have to fight. The studios want to be your partner in the creative process. That`s why I find most of my financing overseas. I don`t let the Money give me notes on my scripts. I don`t allow the Money on the set. I don`t allow the Money in ...
Jim Jarmusch
I wish, and I wish so much for the film industry right now. I wish so much for originality and I wish so much and I think that we`re caught in this difficult cycle right now because our studios are corporations now. I keep talking about the old 1940s, whe...
Sarah Gellar
When R-rated comedies don`t work, the studios are really embarrassed by them. But a PG-13 comedy is actually less offensive than an episode of "Friends" (1994). I think people want something a little more adult.
Judd Apatow
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