Martellus Bennett Quotes

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

I do look at 'Modelland' as a franchise.

After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

If you look at Disney's slate compared to the other Hollywood studios, it stands out because of big titles and strong franchise films which also extend beyond cinemas, to merchandising or theme parks given the legacy of the four brands - Disney, Pixar, Marvel and now Lucasfilm.

Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think.

We never realized how much money there was to be found in character products.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.