Nigel Kneale Quotes

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

This crash is not going to have much effect on business.

As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

Years ago, I tried my hand at business and incurred huge loss, and my only way out was to do a movie with Mammootty.

I have always maintained that the audience should take a call on this. Its up to them to decide whether they want to see a pirated version or not. They should understand the effort and amount of hard work that go into a film.

I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue.

When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

Wrestling promotions are kind of like new religions - nine out of 10 fail in the first year.

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.

I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.