Quotes About Industry

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

Movie studios could learn a thing or two from British publishers. There is an intelligence, and a respect for writers; things that you hope for and never get in Hollywood.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the big studios, make pretty much the same film. And we're kind of held to Pixar standards, or Disney standards, as it's kind of always been in the animation industry.

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.