Morgan Freeman Quotes

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

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.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive.

I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.

'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.

So when 'Skatetown' came up at Columbia and Ray Stark's studio, the idea was to do it quick. They wanted it out in the fall, and they gave me the treatment on July 4th weekend! I wrote it in four days, and, you know, it kind of looks like it.

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

I prepared the script of 'Pataas', when working for 'Kandireega'. When I approached Kalyan Ram with the script, he liked it and said that he will produce the film with a big hero.

I got good recognition in the industry after working for 'Kandireega'. I traveled with director Santosh Srinivas right from the scripting stage for that film.

I want to carry a really great role in a great film.

I thought it would be interesting to try something in Hollywood after a movie like 'Valhalla Rising,' which I was really pleased with, personally.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

The budget of 'Vada Chennai' is nearly Rs 60 crores.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

To be successful in Bollywood, you either need to be a superstar or have a super script.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.