Robert Pattinson Quotes

After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

I'm trying to build a Disney. Not only as a creator, but also be able to create universes where then that content can go into toys, and live on multimedia platforms, whether it's apps, books, movies, cartoons. It's like building a whole world, which takes a lot of money.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think.

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

I love commercial cinema.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

I'm not supporting nor not supporting TV casting shows - there is no doubt they are created for financial reasons - but I don't have a problem with wanting to sell tickets, and if you want to do an arena version of a rock musical, you have to sell a lot of tickets to justify the cast.

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

I don't think my vibe will work in Bollywood. But Hollywood, maybe.

Broadway doesn't mean anything in Los Angeles.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

I don't work for Hollywood.