Roger Corman Quotes

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• You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

  Roger Corman

  Long, Hook, Advertising

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Order, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• There's always something that draws you away from the original script.

  Roger Corman

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

  Roger Corman

  Rebel, Spirit, Rebellious

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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

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• A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy things to identify. The third is the creativity, and that is very difficult to identify in advance. This is why so many of the directors who have started with me were my assistant - the first one was Francis Ford Coppola.

  Roger Corman

  Creativity, Hard Work, Intelligent

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

  Roger Corman

  Roger, Said, Know How

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• 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

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• I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.

  Roger Corman

  Done, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

  Roger Corman

  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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