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I've never made the film I wa...

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

Roger Corman 26 quotes

I do believe motion pictures ...

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 26 quotes

In science-fiction films the ...

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

Roger Corman 26 quotes

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't...

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 26 quotes

Somebody who moved up very fa...

Somebody who moved up very fast was Jim Cameron, who was a young guy out of - I think he came from Arizona, from some community college there, and he was building model spaceships, on a picture called Battle Beyond the Stars.

Roger Corman 26 quotes

People gravitate occasionally...

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 26 quotes

A great director, first, is h...

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.

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I love the process of making ...

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

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I look for the ability to wor...

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 26 quotes

When I started, every film go...

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 26 quotes

Motion pictures are the art f...

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 26 quotes

Other writers, producers, and...

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.

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As a producer, I probably am ...

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

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Jim Cameron is proof that if ...

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

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You can make a movie about any...

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

Roger Corman 26 quotes

Horror films have been with us...

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.

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I think the art film, or the a...

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 26 quotes

My father was an engineer, .. ...

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.

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The safest genre is the horror...

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 26 quotes

In science-fiction films the m...

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

Roger Corman 26 quotes

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