Film Rejection Quotes

When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

If one person doesn't like your film, if he's powerful, your film will never see the light of day.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I did a fantastic emotional film, 'Autograph.' But the audiences rejected me in it. They like to see me laughing and fighting.

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn't come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I'd realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that's how television happened.

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

There is no safe zone now: whether it's commercial or experimental films, the audience wants content. Otherwise, they reject the film.

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

I was rejected for many-many films.

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.