Gerard Butler Quotes

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

My ambition is very cinema-driven.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

I have made all my monies through cinema.

I think William H. Macy is the best actor in Hollywood.

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.