Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

I think the bigger the movie is, the harder it is to maintain the idea of an auteur. You're servicing something beyond just your own vision. Whenever there's a lot of money on the line, it is your responsibility to make sure that you're doing your best to have people not lose their money and to actually win by betting on it.

I have always been afraid of banks.

If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

Film-making, in itself, is such a risky, costly-yet-uncertain business that despite being wealthy, 90 percent of people don't become producers.

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

If my films don't do well, nobody is going to give me films.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because there's so much money at stake.

If you screw up five films straight, then you're done. It's a business, the producer invests money and you need to make sure his money is recovered and in the process you give out the best film.

At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules... I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.