Quotes by Eric Fellner

About Eric Fellner:

Eric Fellner is an English film producer. He is the co-chairman (along with Tim Bevan) of the production company "Working Title Films".
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The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Eric Fellner

'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

Eric Fellner

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

Eric Fellner

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

Eric Fellner

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

Eric Fellner

You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

Eric Fellner

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

Eric Fellner

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.

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

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Eric Fellner

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

Eric Fellner

The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

Eric Fellner

Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

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

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Eric Fellner

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

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 - sim...

Eric Fellner

Author Bio

  • NameEric Fellner
  • DescriptionBritish film producer
  • Born1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Producer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire