Lisa See Quotes

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

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

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Movies are an expensive business.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Big feature films are another world.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

The film industry is a tough place to survive.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

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.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

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.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.