Couple Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good…

— Brian Grazer

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They…

— Jackie Chan

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet…

— Crispian Mills

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart…

— Kevin Spacey

I think, so often, people go quick to that nepotism: 'I should be OK; my cousin's a producer. I can get into the movie.'…

— Jovan Adepo

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it,…

— Vivek Oberoi

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood…

— Park Chan-wook

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems…

— Joel Edgerton

It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a…

— Christopher Walken

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

— Dan Gilroy