Eric Fellner Quotes

So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you’re at.

So that is new in terms of where I’ve seen the shifts. Otherwise, it’s all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Oh, IMDB, yeah; there’s a few things on there that are TV, they’re not film, some things they think we did that we didn’t. There’s a few inaccuracies in there. It’s terrifying though, isn’t it?

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

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner’s Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio’s site. Who knows? But that will be it. You’ll go to the cinema and you’ll find a way of digitally interacting with the piece; you’ll either buy it or rent it or whatever.

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

Now there’s always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn’t really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn’t work, the film doesn’t work and there’s none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.

In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.

The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven’t worked so well because people don’t know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it’s quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.

The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it’s like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then five years later they’re back in vogue. Or there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you’re back again at the place you were.