Alan Moore Quotes

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

I would never refuse a film or do a film for a certain amount of money.

The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to.

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.