Distribution Challenges Quotes

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.

We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done this a few times, when I really believe a movie should get a wide release, and I struggle to get it released. That does surprise me.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

A theatrical release is not possible for a short film.

The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one sees the movie. It's hard to get a real theatrical release. The distribution of independent films is, to me, extraordinarily frustrating.

Anybody with a good smart phone can shoot and edit a film. Distributing it is the hard part.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.