Blockbuster Quotes

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Star
  • Look
  • Blockbuster

• Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.

  

  Morgan Saylor
  • People
  • Uncomfortable
  • Shocking

• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Film
  • Speak
  • Successful

• There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].

  

  Declan Shalvey
  • Interesting
  • Incredibly
  • Drawn

• The theater business is very much about Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Blockbuster
  • Christmas time
  • Theater business

• I think DVD has been a real gold mine for a lot of reasons. You were selling a packaged good in a big mass market, so you could make it huge. You were selling or renting a thing that people didn't consume. You go to Blockbuster, rent five movies, and only watch two. That's a good business to be in.

  

  Michael Lynton
  • Movies
  • Gold
  • Market

• I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Battle
  • Becoming
  • Evolve

• Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Intense

• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  

  Walter Moers
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Making

• I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Independent
  • Cinema
  • Viewer

• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Rich

• I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.

  

  Darius McCrary
  • People
  • Believe
  • Waiting

• I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Blockbuster

• Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

  

  Ewen Bremner
  • Film
  • Budget
  • Prestige

• There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Wall
  • Anxiety
  • Turns

• Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Film
  • Spirituality
  • Questioning

• I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Audience
  • Member
  • Blockbuster