Distribution Platforms Quotes

If a book sells a few hundred thousand copies or a million copies, which is great, it's perfect for PassionFlix because we don't have the same overhead as some of the studios do to make these movies.

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.

From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out there - Amazon, iTunes, all of those. It makes the prospect of doing it yourself - not easy by any means - but possible, maybe for the first time.

Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.

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We released 'The Interview' through a variety of platforms, and we continue to look for other distribution options. Throughout this whole process, we never stopped - not for a single moment - trying to secure a broad release. Our studio takes great pride in continuing to grow the release of this movie and making it a success.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that's a very exciting prospect.

A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well can also fail badly. But we want to be in charge of the value chain. And for this we have to be in software production, distribution, and broadcasting.

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

When I was making short films, I didn't see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of it.

Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.