Bruce Campbell Quotes

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

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

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

Big feature films are another world.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

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

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

If I start a film of my own, then what I eliminate is acting in other people's movies. Because once I start, and I go raise the money, it's about two and a half or three years, and I can't stop. I have people hired. I can't say, 'Ooh there's a good part called 'Drive'; I'll see you in three months.'

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

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

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.

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

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.