Eric Fellner Quotes

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

- Eric Fellner

Making movies is like herding cats.

- Eric Fellner

'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

- Eric Fellner

'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

- Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

- Eric Fellner

The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

- Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

- Eric Fellner

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.

- Eric Fellner

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

- Eric Fellner

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

- Eric Fellner

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

- Eric Fellner

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

- Eric Fellner

Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

- Eric Fellner

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

- Eric Fellner

With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.

- Eric Fellner

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

- Eric Fellner

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

- Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

- Eric Fellner

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

- Eric Fellner

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

- Eric Fellner

My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.

- Eric Fellner

You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

- Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

- Eric Fellner

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

- Eric Fellner

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

- Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

- Eric Fellner

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

- Eric Fellner

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

- Eric Fellner

I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

- Eric Fellner

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.

- Eric Fellner