It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.