Words matter. These are the best Eric Fellner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Making movies is like herding cats.
The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
‘No Country for Old Men’ was epic.
You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.
You can’t develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
My theory is, I don’t know how long it’s going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that’s it – simple.
There’s so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word ‘commercial’ because that’s how you make a business.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
It’s fantastic to see ‘Les Miserables’ become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
Apart from ‘Stoned,’ I can’t think of a film that’s made me think, ‘Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.’
‘Billy Elliot’ embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it’s almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
I’m a blind optimist when going into things.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced ‘Billy Elliot’ is very, very exciting.
Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.