Leslie Caron Quotes

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

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

Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.

I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

I love being part of these giant, epic movies. I take great pride in being part of them.