Cinema Quote by William Friedkin

There's more movies now than ever, and competition for the entertainment dollar. These movies aren't recouping the way they used to. These little producers…

— Kurt Voss

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

All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They're making…

— John Boorman

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money…

— Penelope Spheeris

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but…

— Jeffrey Skoll

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be…

— Edwin Catmull

And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas…

— Barry Levinson

Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it…

— Rob Zombie

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

— Callie Khouri

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think…

— Matthew Lillard

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's…

— Vilmos Zsigmond