Ted Sarandos Quotes

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.

Sonali Cable' is not a low budget film, it's a normal budget film.

It's hard to get movies made.

I've got dreams now of reinventing 'Hellraiser' and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. 'Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people's movies. But if someone had a 'Hellraiser' script and had funding, and I loved it, let's go.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.