Eric Fellner Quotes

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

There is so much talent in Australia.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

I want to print books by people in the film industry.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

I love filming in Britain.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.