Beatrice Dalle Quotes

I love commercial cinema.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

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

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

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

Films are a business. They take who's working.

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.

I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

Movies are an expensive business.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

Big feature films are another world.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.