Audience Quote by William Katt

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

— Francis Ford Coppola

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half…

— Woody Allen

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

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

The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which…

— Casey Wilson

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense…

— William Friedkin

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

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the…

— Sandra Bullock

You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.

— Brad Bird

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few…

— Peter Weir

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

— James Wan

There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a movie made,…

— Paul Wernick