Ann Macbeth Quotes

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

I want to make my own movie.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.