Jerry Weintraub Quotes

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

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

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.