Phillip Noyce Quotes

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

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

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

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

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.