Nick Cave Quotes

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

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

Movies are an expensive business.

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.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Big feature films are another world.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

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

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?'

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.