Eric Fellner Quotes

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

I think there's definitely much more opportunities for women now to find a role in 30s and 40s both. I think you're starting to find people really seeing that - here's the thing. It's hard for me to say and know the experience how it was ten, twenty years ago because I was only in my teens and my 20s, but I know from watching TV myself and watching film myself I see a lot more 30s and 40s on screen, which just makes me very, very happy. It's what we should be watching.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

I think one of the hardest things to do in film or TV is to make something feel real, which is weird because it's about being a person, and life is something that everyone making films and TV can relate to.

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again. I like a lot of structure and a lot of lines, but then within that I make room for things to happen that you couldn't have predicted.

There's a pretty epic battle "Part 2" of Twilight. It's really involved and it took us a few weeks to film it, because there was so many of us and it was such a large, massive war. I think they're really gonna love that. I feel like we've been working up to this the whole series and there was a bit of confrontation, but you never really got to see all the vampires go full force.

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this again for four years!"That's about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I think most of the scripts I read to tend to go in that direction and I find that very, very unsatisfying. I want the stories to have loose ends and to pose some questions - or even say things that aren't too comfortable.

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it.

I just want to work and be in films that I like, it is so simple. I think from the outside it seems as though as actors, we are picking and choosing our roles, but it isn't like that at all, perhaps unless you are George Clooney. There are not that many movies I would want to be in.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better than what you did plan. There's the question of either going with it or not.

I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.