Henry Golding Quotes

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.