Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

I want to be a part of films that have some kind of social comment and that will help people evolve.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of them.

My endeavour in most of my movies is to inspire people.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

I don't believe in making those high-brow films that the audience does not understand.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.