36 Quotes by Grant Heslov

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

But it took a Murrow, because Murrow had an audience unlike any of these other guys.

His public persona dictates that he's the life of the party -- which he is -- and that he's all about fun -- which he is.

We've been friends for 25 years, and he slept on my couch when he couldn't get a job. I loaned him $100 (56 pounds) so he could get his first set of head shots, so it's particularly gratifying, truly, for me to see him rise.

We didn't grow up in that generation. But we're fascinated by that time. We've talked about what that kind of activism must have been like. I think this is kind of our way of experiencing it.

We couldn't think of any one (actor) who was as good as he was, or as bad.

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.