“I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.”
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“I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.”
“I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.”
“We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.”
“When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?”
“Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.”
“My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.”
“When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.”
“All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.”
“Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.”
“Audiences want to see intelligent movies.”
“You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.”
“I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.”
“All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.”
“Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.”
“I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.”
“Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.”
“I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.”
“I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.”
“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”
“I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.”
“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.”
“I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.”
“Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.”