Patrick Whitesell Quotes

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

No studio picks up the phone after seeing 'Dogtooth' and goes, like, 'We have the next superhero movie.' Though if one did, that would be an interesting studio to work with.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

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.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

I want to make my own movie.