Movie Market Quotes

You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.

'Lethal Weapon' sold apropos of nothing when I was very young, but that was a very different market.

Women directors in India have mostly made niche films. Naturally, those films have a limited market.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.

Germany is the country where action films perform the worst. It's the worst market in the world for these kind of movies.

Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame filmmakers, especially in comedy, which is my bread and butter, because it's become a bit of a boys' club over the years. With the boys in charge you get these takes on women which are either the girlfriend or the mean wife or the girl who appears in a romantic comedy. You're just getting either men's fantasies about women or what they think is the reality about women instead of men just having a healthy attitude about women.

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow.

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.