Clive Barker Quotes

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I'll watch anything as long as it's good. I can't choose just one movie that I love.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

Taking chances is my job; some will connect and some won't, and certain films find their audiences in different ways. I think 'Spotlight' probably is a better movie because of 'The Cobbler.' You learn with every movie you make: you learn from your mistakes, and you learn from your achievements, and I really do have that approach to filmmaking.

I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.

I think there are just bad films and good films. Period.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur.

What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.

I grew up on a very specific diet of certain weird movies. Of course, being black, there are more black movies in there. I'll get to bring some of those references into 'Mystery Science Theater 3000.'

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

It's not enough that you act in a movie - if it has to work, the audience should like it.

I relate to all kinds of film.

I will always accept good films that require demanding performances.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

I'm very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I'm just going to give the fans what they want.