“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.” PeopleYearsBigsFilmKnownCareersSuccessfulFineExcitingPaidHostRespectableRubbishJuliaAmerican Film Author:Joely Richardson
“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsSaidDoneFactsInspirationFilmWonderfulMetsPaidComplimentAdaptationNever QuitJulietOh WellRomeo Juliet Author:Ian Mckellen
“I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeFilmPlansTerribleMouthsPaidLeavingOpeningCinemaClosingBusiness PlanWord Of Mouth Author:Graham Linehan
“I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.” PeopleIfsWantBigsJobsFilmWorstTruth IsMachinesPaidIncrediblesCraftsDisrespectfulCogs Author:Paddy Considine
“If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.” IfsLittlesCharacterHelpingFilmActorsInterestingSpecialPaidSomething SpecialNashville Author:Dito Montiel
“I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?” FilmNightThreeFunStageThirdsPaidInitials Author:Steve Martin
“I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.” FirstsFilmPaidLowest Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.” PeopleWantShouldDifferentEndsFilmNightMiddleTelevisionPaidTheaterEvery NightFilm And Television Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.” LastsFilmCompanyCasesMonthsSixPaidCuriousShootingExtrasButtonsSchedulesSix MonthsBenjamin Button Author:Jason Flemyng
“It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.” PeopleNeedsKindHardHomeBigsFilmMinutesStrangeIndustryPaidFilm IndustryBig Heads Author:Eric Stoltz
“I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.” MightSchoolFilmLeftWeekDramaPaidLots Of Money Author:John Hurt
“All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.” KnowsFilmStarsNaturalStudentsHighestCatPaidDisasterFilm StarsDisaster Movie Author:Simon Jenkins
“David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.” WayYearsFilmChangedBallsPaidMy WayGood WorkRollingChanged My LifeGood FilmsChapsSonySundance Author:Jacki Weaver
“My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.” FilmFormChangePaidThings ChangePsychoanalysis Author:Woody Allen
“The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.” FilmSexBoysRocksPoliticianHighestHollywoodPaidIntelligentScriptsProducersAdministrationClassicOne TimeCigaretteRock And RollProvocativeIlliterateObsceneBad BoyMisdeeds Author:David Shuster
“In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.” PersonsFilmCoursesHouseLeftMemoriesAttentionClassMorningBecomingDirectorsPaidTheaterNeighborhoodEvery MorningCrashIntrospectiveScreenwritersMovie TheaterKurosawaRenoir Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesMadeReasonWholeWantedFilmBitsGoalHorrorRight NowLittle BitDiedPaidSellsCome UpScreamHorror FilmPaid Off Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.” WellsMadeAgeFilmChoicesWaitingMonthsSixPaidRight ThingCowardSix Months Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.” KnowsNeedsWellsMadeHardAgeFilmYoungChoicesFatherEasyStuffWaitingMonthsLuckySixPaidRight ThingWealthyCowardSix MonthsSo Lucky Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.” WritingMadeFilmPlansMarkPaidEightyScreenplays Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.” IfsLittlesFilmChoicesMillionsHugePaidIndependentFortuneBudgetsHanging OutTrailersIndependent Film Author:William H. Macy
“You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.” WantKindHomeFilmActingAudienceWifePaidPassionateDinnerInteractionVacuumsDisinterestedFilm Set Author:Lola Kirke
“Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.” IfsMindKindHas BeensMadeFilmOfficePaidBoxesMind SetBox OfficeBox Office Success Author:Jessica Lange
“Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.” ThinkingWellsFilmActorsActingKnownTroublePaidWell KnownSalaryTime AwayFilm Actors Author:Bill Murray