Peter Capaldi Quotes

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

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

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

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.

Big feature films are another world.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

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

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

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.

'The Blind Side' took forever to get it out of 20th Century Fox in turnaround. It was one of three different movies I was involved with then. 'The Blind Side' just happened to be the one that got made.

So many movies get made, and so many go to VOD, which is a market I admire.

After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the best-run big businesses we have.

My goal is to get a real film industry started in Washington. An actual one, not where features come to town and shoot second unit for a few days. I would love to get something started here. Hire local crews. People could work year-round and raise their families here.

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

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

My entire family has been part of the film industry for many years.