Top 40 Eric Fellner Quotes
#1. You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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#2. So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.
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#3. Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
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#4. I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.
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#6. It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
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#7. It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.
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#8. 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.
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#9. Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
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#10. My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.
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#11. Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'
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#12. It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
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#13. That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.
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#14. If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
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#15. Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.
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#16. Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?
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#17. You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.
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#18. For me, I can't tell you if the film is good or bad, all I can say is for me the film is way better than I had expectation of us being able to make. So for me that's the most important thing. Have we exceeded our dream in terms of what it could be?
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#19. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
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#20. Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
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#21. You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
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#23. In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.
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#24. It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
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#25. I'm a blind optimist when going into things.
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#26. When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.
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#27. I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.
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#28. 'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
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#29. There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
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#30. Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.
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#31. So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.
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#32. For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
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#33. With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
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#34. The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
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#35. I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
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#36. The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
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#37. I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.
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#38. But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.
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#39. Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.
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