Academy Quote by Lili Taylor

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

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies…

— Patricia Arquette

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But…

— Mark Rydell

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in…

— Parker Posey

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser…

— Robert Osborne

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return…

— Alex Winter

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or…

— R. Madhavan

No producer wants to lose money and no director wants to make a bad film. I don't think those things apply to my films.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have…

— Zoe Saldana

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate…

— Nick Cave