Mike Flanagan Quotes

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.

It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.