John Ratzenberger Quotes

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Films are just consumables.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

I love commercial cinema.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Big feature films are another world.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.