Dennis Hopper Quotes

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

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

Big feature films are another world.

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers.

I wanted to be a part of commercial cinema.

I don't see a full-fledged career in Hollywood. I am happy with the cameos. Even Tom Cruise will only do special appearances in our films; he wouldn't do a full hero movie. But it's good to act in different cinema.

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Working on a big-budget summer blockbuster with a built-in fan base is a dream come true for any actor.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

I was brought up on American films.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.