"The safest genre is the horror film. But……" — Roger Corman
"The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead."
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10 Quotes by Roger Corman
Roger Corman has 10 quotes on this site.
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As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
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Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films…
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Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was…
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You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.
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There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural…
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One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking…
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When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got…
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Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.
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My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free…
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I would never say never to returning to comedy.
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I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.
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