Louis Leterrier Quotes

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was a very satisfying experience.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

A lot of people get stuck, like, "Oh, if it's made by a studio, it can't be independent." Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it's distributed, but I don't really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn't matter.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.