Richard D. Zanuck Quotes

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands.

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985.

I started really working in, like, 2014, so I was 13, 14 years old.

When I was a boy, I was 15-16, I had a job during the school holidays as an extra. That's how I started. My first time on set was as an extra. I did it for two years. It was amazing!

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

Hollywood does seem like the holy grail. Not to diminish anything from other countries, but it's the most mainstream and hardest to be a part of because there are so many people in it.

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

I had an interest in film, but I didn't want to go to Hollywood and make movies.

My uncle Lionel ended up being a bug guy at 20th Century Fox, which my father had been - and, of course, my cousin Randy - you know, one of the great American songwriters. It was a storied family and, in many ways, very tough to emerge from.

I only entered the industry when I was 16. I really didn't have much of a struggle to land myself a role in a film.

I got to work alongside Alexandra Shipp, who plays Storm in 'X-Men: Apocalypse', so that was really cool for me.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

There are too many stars and too few actors.