Cinematic Spectacle Quotes

When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

The action scenes you'll see in 'Saaho' are all real - it's going to look fantastic.

If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.

I do think that as I said before the canvas of action sequences and the way in which the sequences unfurl will be very unique and will be different than any movie we've made before, and that's what makes it interesting, what makes it [Doctor Strange] special, and what makes it worth pursuing, and worth bringing to life for the first time.

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!