Sam Elliott Quotes

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.

I've made movies where I was not happy, and I'd rather not work for a year than do a bad film. It takes a long time for me to recuperate when I do that.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

A lot of movies come out and you think, 'Couldn't you have just tried a little harder?'

I have only one simple ambition when I make a film. That it should be the best I have made so far. With 'Kadal' it was no different.

This is the great thing about my friends over at Lucasfilm: They are so committed to the highest quality product that they allow their DPs to come on well in advance of the shoot.

There's no certain type of cinema, but there's a certain type of promise every film comes with. The agenda is to keep an eye on quality and live up to that promise.

The priority for me has always been good films.

Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.

All producers and directors want to make good films.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.