Movie Marketing Quotes

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

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.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and found their audience despite being about topics that were outside of the mainstream.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

The film industry is a tough place to survive.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

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

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

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

Trust me: I was the most bullish on 'Deadpool.' When I was day one on the set, I said, 'This is going to open at $75 million,' and they all said, 'Shut up, Liefeld; you're jinxing us.'

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'