Dax Shepard Quotes

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

We have always wanted to give back to cinema, and we couldn't possibly think of a better way to do that than facilitate films which we believe will make Malayalam cinema proud.

Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.

All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

It's not like I wakeup everyday and say, 'You know what, I need to do a horror film.' Statistically it's only like forty percent of my output but it's a great ride and the fan base is really dedicated and that's always cool. When you're lucky enough to be in a good one it's fantastic.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.