“If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.” IfsStoriesHollywoodScriptsCome UpStudiosHollywood Studios Author:Lance Armstrong
“I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.” TryingLooksIdeasStoriesHollywoodScriptsVariousStudiosCommentHollywood Studios Author:Brian Greene
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.” WorldCountryTermFiguresMastersOfficeHollywoodBoxesStudiosFranceCinemaAnimationBox OfficeSmall CountriesHollywood StudiosSavoir Faire Author:Michel Ocelot
“I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.” TryingYearsEndsStoriesTogetherFilmProcessHeardFiguresReadyHollywoodScriptsStudiosProducersConclusionShootingReportsEfficiencyConsultantsHollywood Studios Author:Joseph Kosinski
“Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.” KindHollywoodStudiosHollywood Studios Author:Nicholas Meyer
“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.” StillsDivineGeniusPhotographyHollywoodSeriesInstinctStudiosVisualsPublicityPublic LifeSuperstarLegionImitatorMogulsHollywood Studios Author:Camille Paglia
“Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.” ValuesFemaleHollywoodMalesStudiosExecutivesPerformersHollywood Studios Author:Anna Faris
“Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.” ThinkingYearsBigsThreeRoomsMillionsExpressionCostHollywoodErrorsStudiosFree ExpressionHollywood Studios Author:Robbie Coltraine
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.” IfsFilmFatherBeatsHollywoodTablesStudiosCraftsGirlfriendMy GirlfriendHollywood Studios Author:Noah Wyle
“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.” WantTwoEndsCharacterFilmHoursFictionDogStyleHollywoodIndependentStudiosCraftsDetachmentDeliveryIndependent FilmReservoirsPulpFargoHollywood StudiosReservoir Dogs Author:Stanley Tucci
“I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.” DoeSometimesFeelingsFilmGuyAsksWalksClearCuttingHollywoodFinalsScriptsStudiosCraftsDiscussionInvestigationCastingInterferenceAmbivalentHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh