No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. Robert Zemeckis More Quotes by Robert Zemeckis More Quotes From Robert Zemeckis I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess. Robert Zemeckis day good business long I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free. Robert Zemeckis family mom night world USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage. Robert Zemeckis always real drama school 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it. Robert Zemeckis good you news sad Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work. Robert Zemeckis anything will work wonderful Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything. Robert Zemeckis movies back go money We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance. Robert Zemeckis go know you people I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens. Robert Zemeckis walk about happens happy Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works. Robert Zemeckis everything understand know art From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money. Robert Zemeckis know cinema money attention I'm really tired of making these huge, over-$100 million movies where they literally mean life and death for a studio. It's really rough making these expensive movies. Everyone is hysterical. Robert Zemeckis movies tired life death I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D. Robert Zemeckis story see think reason
