Film Quantity Quotes

I don't believe in doing 20 films a years and being on number one, number five or anything that kind.

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

I used to see an ridiculous quantity of films; I think I saw every possible movie.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.

With excessive digitisation, now, everyone is making films, which is good, but the makers think that they will quickly make films in digital and bag satellite rights but television channels buy satellite rights of notable films only. If we made fewer films a year, percentage of hits would be better.

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.