#vie

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ↗

— John Carpenter

#director #england #filmmaker #germany #horror

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. ↗

— David Zucker

#absolutely #ad #ad campaign #also #business

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. ↗

— Angela Carter

#come #many #memories #movies #nostalgia

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it. ↗

— David Zucker

#audience #feels #get #guy #how

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one. ↗

— David Zucker

#different #different kinds #directing #each #hold

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful. ↗

— David Zucker

#any #attract #audience #aware #been

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit. ↗

— David Zucker

#cockpit #funny #guys #hayden #hour

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us. ↗

— David Zucker

#brothers #funniest #grew #hour #i

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening. ↗

— David Zucker

#completely #every #every time #get #good