Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.

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

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

In the greed-is-good tradition of the 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' movie franchises, the overseers of 'The Hunger Games' have split the last book into two films.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.