Shane Black Quotes

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

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

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.

I did 'Iron Man' because I was curious about those massive movies that were taking over the summers every year, and I wanted to see what the fuss was about.

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.