Ralph Fiennes Quotes

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.

I've done quite a few big American films.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer in thematics.

The chasm between independent film and commercial film is now so wide. You either have to be super-famous and get a first-time director or writer's indie script off the ground, or you're a newcomer and go and put a cape on for four years.

Growing up, I wanted to make the kind of movies that would play in a multiplex, and those were the kinds of movies I ended up making.

It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar.

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.'