26+ Eric Fellner Quotes On Education, Socialism And Creative

Eric Fellner is a British film producer and co-chairman of Working Title Films. He has co-produced films such as Love Actually, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Picture for the film The Theory of Everything. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Eric Fellner on education, life, leadership.

Top 10 Eric Fellner Quotes

1. Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.
2. 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.
3. 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, is to try and do more.
4. 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 afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.
5. 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.
6. 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 where they don't really want to be.
7. 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 English movies.
8. 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 in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?
9. Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
10. The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

Eric Fellner Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you're back again at the place you were. — Eric Fellner

I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible. — Eric Fellner

The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner's Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio's site. Who knows? But that will be it. You'll go to the cinema and you'll find a way of digitally interacting with the piece; you'll either buy it or rent it or whatever. — Eric Fellner

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 some mixing, we've actually got to bring the orchestra back because there is music, as you probably noticed, right the way through the film so you have to orchestrate all of that extra time. — Eric Fellner

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 the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans. — Eric Fellner

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius. — Eric Fellner

Making movies is like herding cats. — Eric Fellner

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 computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple. — Eric Fellner

The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven't worked so well because people don't know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it's quite challenging. So those are the problems you have. — Eric Fellner

Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie. — Eric Fellner

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. — Eric Fellner

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting. — Eric Fellner

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. So for me that's the most important thing. Have we exceeded our dream in terms of what it could be? — Eric Fellner

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-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it. — Eric Fellner

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 have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at. — Eric Fellner

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 that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things. — Eric Fellner

Life Lessons by Eric Fellner

1. Eric Fellner's success in the film industry demonstrates the importance of hard work and dedication.
2. His ability to identify and develop successful projects shows the value of taking risks and having a keen eye for talent.
3. By staying true to his own vision and remaining open to collaboration, Eric Fellner has been able to create some of the most successful films of the past two decades.