Doors Quote by Sean Baker

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

— Brigitte Bardot

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

— David Heyman

'Tangerine' was less than half the budget of 'Starlet,' and 'Starlet' was already a microbudget film. A director always wants more time, and we…

— Sean Baker

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and…

— Peter O'Toole

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or…

— Catherine Hardwicke

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in…

— Parker Posey

I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two…

— Stephanie Zacharek

If my first film would have done well, no one would have questioned me about being a star kid. Maybe I didn't choose the…

— Jackky Bhagnani

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

— Bob Balaban

I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in…

— Peter Bogdanovich

With 'The Replacements,' it was insane. I'd never done a movie that opened up and made, like, seven million dollars. I'd never been part…

— Orlando Jones

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film…

— Burt Reynolds