Competition Quote by Sam Mendes

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

— Julia Leigh

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

— Jon M. Chu

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I…

— Steve Carell

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many.…

— David Edelstein

We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard…

— George Clooney

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I…

— George Clooney

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report…

— Tom Hanks

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or…

— Mark Rydell

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an…

— Simon Pegg

It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they…

— Kate del Castillo

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.

— Michel Hazanavicius