Roger Corman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

  Roger Corman

  Halloween, Genre Is, Laughing

• Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

  Roger Corman

  Art, Facts, Film

• Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

  Roger Corman

  Giving, Directors, Film

  Roger Corman, J. Philip Di Franco, Karyn G. Browne (1979). “The Movie World of Roger Corman”, Chelsea House

• My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

  Roger Corman

  Father, Film Critics, Criticism

• I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

  Roger Corman

  Satisfaction, Facts, Film

  Source: collider.com

• Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

  Roger Corman

  Forever, Way, Horror

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film critics on the Stanford Daily, and they got free passes to all the theaters in Palo Alto. So I thought, I'll do that, and I became a film critic. And then I became interested in films. But I had no time to study anything in that area because I was a senior, just finishing up as engineering.

  Roger Corman

  Senior, Study, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was just impressed by, first, the story itself. I didn't know that much about films. But the acting, the director. And particularly, the cinematography, the black-and-white use of exteriors, I noted particularly.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Acting, Remember

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

  Roger Corman

  Monsters, Fiction, Film

  Ed Naha, Roger Corman (1982). “The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget”

• Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one.

  Roger Corman

  Successful, Guy, Southern

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

  Roger Corman

  Matter, Film, Made

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2010.

• When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Broken, Done

  Source: dailydead.com

• Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

  Roger Corman

  Ideas, Getting Older, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

  Roger Corman

  Hard Work, School, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

  Roger Corman

  Trying, Film, Ends

• People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

  Roger Corman

  Art, People, Film

  Source: collider.com

• When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

  Roger Corman

  Matter, Today, Film

• When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.

  Roger Corman

  Mean, Two, Years

  Source: collider.com

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