Quotes About Blockbusters

#1. I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

Josh Duhamel

#2. I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

Harmony Korine

#3. Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.

Golshifteh Farahani

#4. Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

Anita Elberse

#5. I don't want to do only blockbusters.

Orlando Bloom

#6. I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

Sarah Steele

#7. It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Chris Evans

#8. Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

Paul A. Offit

#9. Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

Julie Walters

#10. The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them ... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

Gemma Arterton

#11. Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Mark Ruffalo

#12. I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Leonard Maltin

#13. One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

Jeff Daniels

#14. The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

Tim League

#15. I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Pam Grier

#16. I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

Nicole Holofcener

#17. Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

James Garner

#18. Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

Douglas Adams

#19. I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

Alexander Walker

#20. It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema.

Justin Chadwick

#21. My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies.

Alice Braga

#22. Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Ang Lee

#23. Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Sean Penn

#24. Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Pierce Brosnan

#25. I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

Pamela Yates

#26. I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

Michael Caine

#27. As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Stephen Kinzer

#28. The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Anita Elberse

#29. Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Roger Ebert

#30. Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

Eva Green

#31. I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.

James Ponsoldt

#32. Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.

Rob Zombie

#33. I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

Natalie Dormer

#34. Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

Jason Statham

#35. I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Sara Sheridan

#36. I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.

Darius McCrary

#37. For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.

Linda Woolverton

#38. While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

Elizabeth McGovern

#40. Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

John Updike

#41. The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Xavier Dolan

#42. I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.

Rhys Wakefield

#43. As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

Karen Allen