Film Careers Quotes

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

You will not find outsiders getting main, important roles in big films. The difficult part is to meet the right people.

I had admired the way the producers of the 'Harry Potter' franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he'd come from television.

When people talk about first-timers, I always think of Spike Lee. In every film he's made, he has A-listers, but he's always giving roles to first-time actors and breaking careers. He's brought such wonderful actors into the spotlight, and I love that.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.

I have always made films with actors who became superstars.

The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films.