Parker Posey Quotes

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

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

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

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

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

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

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

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.

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

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

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

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

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