Roger Corman

“I always felt the secret of success for a film was to get a good script and a good director, and then get out of the way.”

“You can do anything you want, as long as you do it with enough nerve.”

“One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about the same everywhere. It's the circumstances that are different.”

“I was never interested in being a select, avant-garde filmmaker. I'm a populist filmmaker.”

“The best way to learn how to make a movie is to make a movie.”

“If you don't make it for a price, you'll never make it.”

“I never made a film I didn't believe in.”

“The audience is the final judge.”

“I think that the best training a director can have is to be a film editor.”

“I could have made a lot more money making one big-budget film, but I wouldn't have had as much fun.”

“The first rule of my filmmaking is that the movie must be commercial.”

“Always, in all of my films, I've had a theme of the individual against society.”

“All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of the day.”

“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”

“My theory is, if you're not interfering with the director, you're not doing your job as a producer.”