Joel Silver Quotes

Big feature films are another world.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

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

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

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

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.

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

I wanted to be a part of commercial cinema.

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

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.