Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to make and the story I wanted to tell.

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.