Sydney Pollack Quotes

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

I love commercial cinema.

The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

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

Movies are an expensive business.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.