Mark Rydell Quotes

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?

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

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

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

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

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

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

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

I love commercial cinema.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

The film industry is a tough place to survive.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Movies are an expensive business.

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.

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

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

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

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

Big feature films are another world.