Film Producer Quotes

After losing his shirt on a period drama about Napoleon:

Never, never, will I do another play where a guy writes with a feather.

Max Gordon (producer)

Do you know the famous last words of the Fatted Calf? 'I hear the young master has returned.'

Monja Danischewsky

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Adams' first law of television:

The weight of the backside is greater than the force of the intellect.

We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but that were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country.

Anything but Beethoven. Nobody wants to see a movie about a blind composer.

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

That man's ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open.

Of Clark Gable

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

One thing about being in the public eye is that you cannot let anybody intimidate you.

Nader Nadernejad

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad.

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

The dream — you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Barbra Streisand