Dirk Benedict Quotes

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

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

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

Big feature films are another world.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

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.

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

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

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

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

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

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.