Connie Nielsen Quotes

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Big feature films are another world.

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

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

My job is to make superhit films

I'm besotted by [Kirsten Dunst] now. I think she's just wonderful. I can't think for a second that however much she'd worked in America, she would never have had the chance to play [a role in Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' ] like that. You have to get outside of the States to do something like that.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

I make the joke, all the time, that if you have the word "man" and a number in the title, like Batman 2, Spider-Man 2 or Iron Man 12, you'll get it made. The kind of movies I make, studios don't make them. I've made a lot of movies, and at Castle Rock, we've made 125 movies. None of them get made at a studio. I've got to scrounge around for money, every time. I just like to tell stories. I'm a storyteller, so I want the most people to see it.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.