Johan Renck Quotes

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Big feature films are another world.

It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood and loving the history, what's behind the scenes, and what people don't know.

I never had any idea of going into movies.

I've been lucky to be a part of many blockbuster movies... in which it's hard to get to that level of being memorable, but I still have fond memories of 'Independence Day,' to be sure. There are also many small ones I've had that give me many fond memories.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'