Mel Smith Quotes

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

Now I do perhaps three films or 17 TV movies a year.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.