Annuals Quote by Ricky Van Veen

Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each…

— Edward Bok

The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema halls and…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I've never made a film that lost money.

— Sylvester Stallone

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

— William Friedkin

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

— Woody Allen

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

— Christopher Nolan

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

— Richard Linklater

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

— Lucrecia Martel

I still remember most people in the industry warning me that I was not playing the stardom game and that I was becoming niche…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

— Melvin Van Peebles

We'd all like to be in the business where we don't have to report our numbers, too. You're dealing with a Netflix and an…

— Nancy Dubuc