Quotes from Roger Corman

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.