Campbell Scott Quotes

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

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

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

Movies are an expensive business.

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

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

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.