Commonplace Quote by Cheo Hodari Coker

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

— Nicolas Cage

Mistakes happen because so many minds work on one film.

— Sudeep

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and…

— Richard D. Zanuck

Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what…

— Sherry Lansing

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

— Julia Leigh

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly…

— Woody Allen

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

— Nick Hornby

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride…

— Rick McCallum

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

— Jason Blum

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

— Clint Eastwood

Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose…

— Zoe Saldana

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

— Mindy Kaling