Release Timing Quotes

It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.

I've got a good, quick release.

I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.

The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

June is definitely a special month for me as many of my milestone films have released in this month, but that doesn't mean I consciously choose to release my films only in this month.

Festive seasons are good for releases, but we have to leave some festival dates for other producers to release their films as well. We cannot take away all the holiday releases.

It makes sense for an actor to space out his releases. But filmmaking is unpredictable.

I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

Producers do not seem to understand that they are cutting into each other's business. They complete their films at the same time and do not space their releases.

Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.

If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

'Poda Podi' was made in 2008 and should have released in 2009. The movie didn't come out on time and so it lost its charm.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of and you think it transcended all of your expectations but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

The 'Broken Destiny' series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."

Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.