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It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back…

— Chris Evans

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

— Curtis Hanson

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

— Joel Silver

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be…

— Edwin Catmull

I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not…

— Len Wiseman

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

— D. B. Sweeney

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the…

— Zooey Deschanel

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money…

— Penelope Spheeris

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the…

— Costa-Gavras