Brian Helgeland Quotes

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.

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.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

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

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

Film industry people don't read books.

I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and found their audience despite being about topics that were outside of the mainstream.

Marketing movies is hard.

It's hard to get movies made.

Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

We typically make movies that are geared towards 18-year-olds. The people who pay and go to movies more than two or three times are usually under 22, so I get how it works. I don't really want 18-year-old boys to find me that attractive, that kind of would creep me out at this stage.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.