Always Quote by Mike Newell

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

— Cate Blanchett

When I began my career, I had films with the biggest film-makers in the country.

— Raveena Tandon

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days…

— Ridley Scott

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if…

— Sriram Raghavan

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was…

— Rana Daggubati

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively…

— Tom Hooper

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here;…

— David Slade

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is…

— James Nesbitt

When I entered the industry, I was told that I was fit for only television and not films.

— Mimi Chakraborty

It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials.…

— Tony Scott

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

— Ed O'Neill

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

— Guy Ritchie