Ernest Cline Quotes

People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

There was a movie called 'Hawk the Slayer' when I was a kid. I think only three people saw it, but me and my brother saw it. I remember when I was a kid thinking that's kind of cool. It was just this sort of action adventure-y sort of thing.

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

I never took to Hollywood.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

Usually, the worst films become cult films.

I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth': none found a large audience.

After 'The Room' premiered in 2003 - which went exactly as it does in 'The Disaster Artist' - I didn't think it was going to go anywhere. It wasn't a film I wanted to share with people.

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

'The Room' came out in 2003, really to crickets. Nobody showed up to see it. It made $1800 at the box office. Everyone assumed it was going to disappear.

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?