Louis Leterrier Quotes

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

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.

I don't think I can make a film without Salman. He is in 'Mr. India 2' and also in the sequels to 'No Entry' and 'Wanted.' I'm his new Sooraj Barjatya.

I like to produce my own movies.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

I want to be an executive producer.