Charlton Heston Quotes

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

Big feature films are another world.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

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.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

There's so many stories to tell in Hollywood in the Golden Age that stems from truth.

There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I don't know that I understood that until I got into certain rooms, and people's faces go blank when you talk about Sundance.

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.

I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.

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

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

Your big movie stars who've been in blockbusters generating a lot of dollars are looking for the meatier, substantive roles that they think will make the awards season.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

I wanted to be a part of commercial cinema.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

I want to be a part of the best movies that are being made, and to work with the best directors.