Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

I hope there are 10 sequels to the 'Guardians' movie!

It would be great to read a script, which is an action script uniquely written so that it doesn't cost an arm or a leg because we are now accustomed to seeing action in the superhero form.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.