Faran Tahir Quotes

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

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

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.

Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

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.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

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.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.