Holly Hunter Quotes

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

Big feature films are another world.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

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

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers.

My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.