In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
First, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine,… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year,… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior… — Roger Corman Copy Share
I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a… — Roger Corman Copy Share
I was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of youth culture,… — Roger Corman Copy Share
I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious… — Roger Corman Copy Share
There was a fairly big difference between Detroit and Beverly Hills. I remember this. Detroit actually was a prosperous bustling city when we moved… — Roger Corman Copy Share
I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form… — Roger Corman Copy Share
You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. — Roger Corman Copy Share
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. — Roger Corman Copy Share
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make… — Roger Corman Copy Share
I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I… — Roger Corman Copy Share
Somebody who moved up very fast was Jim Cameron, who was a young guy out of - I think he came from Arizona, from… — Roger Corman Copy Share
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made. — Roger Corman Copy Share
When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today,… — Roger Corman Copy Share
