Mike Epps Quotes

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

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.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

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

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

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.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

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

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

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

My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

I want to make sensible commercial films.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.