Occupation: Film Producer Birth: October 10, 1959
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do..
That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area wher….
I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe..
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 t….
But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwa….
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K..
The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector..
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just have to do a little ADR and then s….
Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small Engli….
The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had….
Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what ….
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your co….
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….
It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orc….
For me, I can't tell you if the film is good or bad, all I can say is for me the film is way better than I had expectation of us being able to make. ….
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting..
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, ….
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..
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 ….
Making movies is like herding cats..