Any Quote by Michael Douglas

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the…

— Karyn Kusama

All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you can do…

— Richard Linklater

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors…

— Steve Buscemi

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a…

— Ben Affleck

The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

— Robert Simonds

A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well can also…

— Ronnie Screwvala

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense…

— William Friedkin

With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it…

— Ryan Eggold

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time.…

— Michael De Luca

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we…

— Anita Elberse

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few…

— Peter Weir