Henry Thomas Quotes

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

Big feature films are another world.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

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

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

You see a Clint Eastwood movie, and you might not know if it's from Universal or Warner Bros. or another studio. He has affiliations with so many studios now, but there was a time when you'd just look at a movie and think, 'Oh, that's a Warner Bros. film.'

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.