Cheryl Ladd Quotes

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

When you're on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can't.

I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

I'm just a sucker for a good script and people that are passionate about it. I love independents.

Most of my films have been very character driven.

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

I know it's 'Dear White People,' and you can imprint all kinds of concessions about what the show might be about on the title, but my goal was never to, like, educate white people. My goal was always to create characters that you can relate to and fall in love with.

I would like to work in an Aamir Khan movie because these movies have a message in them.

I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.

That's what independent filmmaking does: it gives the underdog a voice, a shot.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

'Raazi,' for me, is a human story - it's much more than just a spy thriller.

I am a social realist writer.

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new generation like 'Ho Mann Jahaan,' which is a film I did of the youth of Pakistan.