Jim Starlin Quotes

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

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

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.

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

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

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

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

You don't usually meet directors on the streets.

I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' - actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

I had an interest in film, but I didn't want to go to Hollywood and make movies.

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

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.

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.

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.