Rob Zombie Quotes

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I like making movies.

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

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

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.