Celebrity Actors Quotes

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

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.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

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

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

People aren't making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.

I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.