Film Release Quotes

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

If a producer goes to the censor at the last minute, just before the film releases, then he often settles with cuts because he cannot afford to lose any more time.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Stars have no say in the release of a film. There are too many factors involved.

After I read the story of 'Dangal' and before the film released, I called director Nitish Tiwari asking him if he had any good script. He told me to wait for some time. So we had three-four sittings, and this film, 'Chhichhore,' came to him. The film did not have superstars, but I felt that this is the script that needs to be told.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

My fans do guarantee me a good opening on the day my film releases. So the responsibility is more on me on doing quality work.

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

I stopped caring about industry rules after my 'Shoebite' did not release.

When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

I think, it's important to understand how to release a film.

With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

I saw 'Boogie Nights' more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen.

'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.

'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.

I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.