George Hamilton Quotes

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.

I never signed 'NH 10' officially. I was supposed to do it. Then it got delayed. Then I moved on to other films like 'Kai Po Che' and 'Shahid.'

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. There's all kinds of reasons. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.