Doors Quote by Harry Shearer

'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And…

— Christopher Guest

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take…

— Rick Wakeman

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

— Nina Blackwood

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

— Alexander Payne

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before…

— Caroline Dhavernas

If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very…

— David Lowery

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the…

— Ajay Devgan

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third…

— Anonymous

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also…

— Ann Macbeth

Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on 'The Lovely Bones'…

— Lynne Ramsay

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

— Patty Jenkins