Holly Hunter Quotes

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

Movies are an expensive business.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

If you look at film, distribution is pre-bought. If you've paid for the distribution, you say, 'I have to make sure it's a film that gets enough butts in the seats.' I think that's the problem: It becomes prohibitively expensive, and you can't develop films for a smaller amount of money.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.

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

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

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

The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'

People have realized that films like Phantom have different remuneration structures.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

I am interested in Bollywood. Everyone wants to do bigger and better work. I also want to do good work.