Anthony Minghella Quotes

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

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.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and 'Shine' than 'Volcano.'

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

'Baahubali' team is not after numbers. If we would have been number guys, we would have never made a film with such a huge budget. We just wanted to make the biggest war film of this country, but what it has achieved is amazing.

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

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

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

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

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

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

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.