Words matter. These are the best Mike Binder Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven’t. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I’ve only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.
In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They’re awash in overhead, and it’s pinning them down, and they know it.
That’s the thing about Michael Moore, when you read his stuff, he’s so sure he’s right about everything; even when he’s wrong, he’s entertaining.
Early on, I joined that large group of show business cadets who were ‘multi-hyphenates,’ ‘independents,’ ‘self produced’ or ‘alternately financed.’ Sometimes, most times, I’ve had to do it all: raise the money, write the script, produce, direct and act in the film.
Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there’s more fat on the bone. There’s more character development. There’s more stuff to pick from.
I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.
From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal. It was a world I was simply infatuated with. So, as soon as I could, I moved out to L.A. chasing after my dream.
I have a spot on the horizon that I’m trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there’s really not a big market for them. Second of all, it’s like cracking a diamond. You’ve got to do it right.
When you’re a comedian, you’re another race. You’re friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It’s us against the world.
It’s not a great feeling for a film to suffer financially, but you can’t sit and mope about it. You just have to just move on to next project – I try to always be working on a new project when my last one hits the theaters.
I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I’m just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
You’ve got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy’s an apparition.
I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done.
‘Desperate Housewives’ – there’s no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were ‘Desperate Househusbands,’ they would shut ABC down.
