Richard Corliss Quotes

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

Growing up, I wanted to make the kind of movies that would play in a multiplex, and those were the kinds of movies I ended up making.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

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.

Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

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

We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible.