Blockbuster Movies Quotes

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I don't know that I understood that until I got into certain rooms, and people's faces go blank when you talk about Sundance.

The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.

I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I want more sci-fi movies that aren't $200 million movies that I have to wait for and generally be disappointed with.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.

I love action films because I have grown up seeing some of the brilliant movies of the genre like 'Ghatak,' 'Ghayal,' 'Shiva.' Watching people doing such stunts had always mesmerised me and fascinated me to think that I should also do such things if I become a hero.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.

Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous.

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.

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

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.