Rob Morrow Quotes

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Big feature films are another world.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

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

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

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

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

The film industry is a tough place to survive.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Movies are an expensive business.

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.

It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

There are different reasons to make movies.