“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.” TryingFirstsRealJobsPastStarsSupportDirectorsProducersOutlinesWhatever It Takes Author:Dino De Laurentiis
“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.” MenLongMadeRememberNamesStarsLosesGoneTalentDirectorsSilentFinishedScreensProducersTitlesGreat Talent Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.” IfsHardBigsStarsDirectors Author:Chris Messina
“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.” ThinkingKnowsArtStillsActorsStarsVisionKnow HowComedyCollegeShapesDirectorsArt IsInchesAffectionateJoshLiberal ArtsRare Things Author:Owen Gleiberman
“I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.” WantLittlesGuyActorsStarsDirectorsCamerasLittle ThingsHere And There Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.” ShouldMayDoeSeemsUsedStarsTermActingStruggleWorstDirectorsAngelShadowConnectionsInstanceCodeDemonAppropriateTomsBuddyBosomsSequelsPredecessorsMotion PicturesPacingNadirDa Vinci Code Author:James Berardinelli
“When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.” TwoStarsDirectorsProducersBoss Author:Jim Brown
“The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."” WantI CanActionLife IsStarsCan DoHoursDirectorsHollywoodScriptsProducersAsiaRush Hour Author:Jackie Chan
“If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."” IfsNeedsFeelsWellsPlayUseStarsStuffTalkingComedyDirectorsDirectEarsTheaterClubsToneComedy Clubs Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.” PeopleIfsWayLongMadeSelfWould BeWantedFilmStarsClearFansDirectorsUnderstoodOkayRevengeMy WayCommentCommentaryDvdsParamountMinutiaeSnicketDreamworksGetting Revenge Author:Daniel Handler
“If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.” IfsEyePastStarsDirectorsHollywoodPerformancesFadingGreat Performance Author:Lee Grant
“I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.” KnowsFirstsLongNightStarsCareersMorningDirectorsDistanceSundayTomsRunnersSaturdaySaturday NightLong DistanceSunday MorningDistance Runner Author:Dustin Hoffman
“What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.” WantPersonsArtistStarsRealizingSimplePoetDirectorsCreatorProducersArtistic Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.” IfsWritingJobsStarsGeniusFameDirectorsCriticalProducersBicycleGood MovieSpearsSteering Author:Ben Hecht