“Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.” InspirationalSuccessMotivationCriticsComplainingWinnerTriumphSelf MotivationRise AboveBestsellerFoolsBlockbusterTrollsTrollingCriticismsDifficult PeopleTop DogWhiny Author:Christian Baloga
“About 20 years ago I told an Exec to tell her friend, an Exec at a big entertainment company that they should develop a video library where anyone can pull up a film or tv show when they want to, from home. This was before Video On Demand. Before Netflix went streaming. Before Amazon Video and Hulu. That entertainment company I told about my vision for a VOD-type of service to was Blockbuster. But because I was a very young Executive, a woman, and Asian; they didn't listen. Look where Blockbuster is now. - Don't take Good Advice for Granted. Futurist - Kailin Gow” VisionAdviceFutureSmartKailin GowAmazonNetflixBlockbuster Author:Kailin Gow
“Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.” Has BeensIdeasFilmLanguageAudienceHugePagesScriptsSophisticatedBlockbuster Author:Connie Nielsen
“Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.” TurnsCareersPinnacleBlockbuster Author:Kelly Reilly
“I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.” ThinkingNeedsEmotionalExclusiveBlockbuster Author:Rupert Sanders
“Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.” LittlesCoursesFunCreativeProduceDirectBunchBlockbuster Author:Lea Thompson
“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.” TodayInterestingWonderfulStageTelevisionDramaMost InterestingBlockbuster Author:Julie Walters
“Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.” BigsGivenMakersVaccinesBlockbusterMoney Maker Author:Paul A. Offit
“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.” NeedsWritingFirstsShowsWorryTelevisionTvsInternetOnlineTv ShowsSeventiesEightyWebsiteBlockbuster Author:Al Franken
“What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?” IfsBookFactsFictionTechnologyPlanetsReaderMassScience FictionWhat IfBlockbuster Author:James Morcan
“I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven.” WayKindLostTechnologyIndustryRight NowHollywoodDrivenSuperheroAdventBlockbusterBandwagon Author:Peter Jackson
“I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.” DreamBigsActionMajorsWake UpEnterpriseDreamerLoadBlockbusterHectic Author:Linda Grant
“I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.” ArtFilmHouseHollywoodEntertainmentThought ProvokingProvokingSnobBlockbuster Author:Ricky Gervais
“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.” WantLongDifferentPlayFilmActorsHouseActingAudienceMaterialsTvsEmptySeriesIntentionTheatreDistinctionTv SeriesBlockbusterEmpty HousesMore The Merrier Author:Ian Mckellen
“After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.” IfsShouldMayHardGuyDiesQualityReturnOfficeShould HaveBoxesAvailableManageFirmResolveDozenBad GuysIndicationDisappointingBox OfficeBlockbusterAssorted Author:James Berardinelli
“The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.” WholeMomentsFilmChanceNumbersOffersSummerFilmmakerDroppingVisionariesLarge NumbersBlockbusterJaw Dropping Author:Tim League
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.” CertainResponsibilityCompanyDrugAssumingProfitTrialsMarginsClinicalsBlockbusterProfit MarginClinical Trials Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.” YearsDoneAudienceExampleProduceSouthClassicAustraliaWorking ItOperaPacificBlockbusterNew Work Author:George Brandis
“Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.” WantAmericaChoicesBlockbuster Author:Eva Green
“The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There” KnowsEndsCharacterProblemPresidentStrangePrideWeaknessHollywoodBoundsComicConfusedProphetPeterBeing ThereIncompetenceSellersCluelessBlockbusterFalse Prophets Author:Femi Fani-Kayode
“There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.” PeopleIfsBigsWould BeBeautifulInterestingStyleIndustryUnderstoodHollywoodSexySubstanceBudgetsRelianceReluctanceBlockbuster Author:Colin Mochrie
“To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.” DelightStressfulBlockbuster Author:Jim Broadbent
“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingWellsPersonsIdeasHardEnoughShowsHappensNextWinningStuffCan DoSleepTvsGiving UpNormalResourcesTablesStudiosRingsWheelsPoolGigsCrushedBrassBlockbusterEmmysJust Give Up Author:Joss Whedon
“Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.” PeopleLittlesTwoSometimesBigsRememberFilmAudienceWeekMinutesMajorsForgottenBizarreTwo WeeksBlockbuster Author:Rob Zombie
“Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.” WayNeedsI CanTwoPastCoursesEnergyBrainTechnologyFiguresSeriousReturnOilPracticalsParksRisingGasPlotConservationDinosaursAsteroidsBlockbusterLearn From The PastGas PricesJurassic ParkEnergy Conservation Author:Dave Barry
“While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.” RealStoriesBigsFallUniverseBlackFictionFansHollywoodScience FictionHolesExpensiveBlack HoleBlockbusterFiction Stories Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.” ThinkingWritingTryingSongFineSucceedPopsSellingPop SongBlockbusterSelling Out Author:Adam Levine
“Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.” IfsBigsFightingDirectorsBlockbusterFight For Me Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsWritingFirstsKindImportantBookShowsOrderFeltKnownSuccessfulStyleParticularReaderRight NowModelsHotWhat You WantAgentsSupposed To BeGenrePublishersModelingBlockbuster Author:Cassandra Clare
“I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.” PeopleIfsBelieveFilmNightWaitingDon't BelieveStoresAll NightCdsBack AgainBack In The DayBlockbusterUp All NightSold Out Author:Darius McCrary
“For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."” YearsFunnyGirlGoneComedyCarSceneVideoEditedBlockbusterLieutenantsSped Author:Louis C. K.
“I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.” ThinkingWellsTermMillionsSuccessfulAdmirePlentyGiantsBeing SuccessfulSincerelyBlockbuster Author:James Ponsoldt
“It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.” HardSeemsFilmLevelsFeetGrewGrew UpStudiosGiantsBlockbuster Author:Chris Evans
“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...” KindDifferentWarSchoolCultureGamesStarsTermCreativeGenerationsEvolutionInternetElementsComputerErasPostsCinemaThrownAffectedFilmmakingGeekExplosionsBlockbusterComputer Games Author:Simon Pegg
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.” PeopleIfsWritingEasyStuffBoysFemaleProtagonistsBlockbusterFemale Protagonists Author:Linda Woolverton
“I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.” WorldTryingArtFilmHouseComedyCinemaDocumentariesEclecticAvidBlockbuster Author:Pamela Yates
“I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.” IfsSaidFilmStarsCall MeTomsAnimatedCruiseMurphyBradBlockbusterAnimated Films Author:Jim Cummings
“For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.” WritingPersonsPlayLinesPleasureCreativeTypeEightCreative PersonBlockbuster Author:Tennessee Williams
“I want to diversify a bit. I don't wanna throw myself into another big blockbuster or another big franchise anytime soon. So smaller films, just small little interesting parts, I think I'd even like to play around with some really good supporting roles and then develop into - I don't know just like feel my way into it a bit more. I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingLittlesPlayBigsFilmBitsInterestingRolesTheaterMy WayBlockbusterSupporting Roles Author:Emma Watson
“A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.” WaySaidDifferentUsedNightGamesSportsMinesHeroConversationUsed To BeTonightBossVillainEvery NightBlockbusterEspnHeroes And Villains Author:Mike Lupica
“There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.” WantFirstsTurnsWallAnxietyBlockbuster Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.” WantLittlesBigsAbleProjectsBlockbuster Author:Jason Statham
“I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.” IfsBigsJobsDecisionAudienceHugeDecision MakingBlockbuster Author:Matt Damon
“The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.” ThinkingFeelsKindImportantFilmHugeComfortableProjectsIndependentIndependent FilmBlockbuster Author:Mia Wasikowska
“The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.” FilmHollywoodCinemaBlockbuster Author:Gemma Arterton
“Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.” PeopleWarStarsSpaceCreatingAll TimeSci FiOperaInfluentialBlockbuster Author:Mark Millar
“The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.” KnowsMenFirstsBelieveMadeSoulHardThreeStepsWorstSummerDumbDullWorthlessHard To BelieveBlockbuster Author:Peter Travers