39 Quotes by Peter Bart

A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain.

Talent and role choice are most important. You can have tremendous publicity, but if you make one lousy movie after another, you're not going to get your price.

That's a little too much in the way of product opening on Christmas day, actually. They're going to bump each other off. That's a shame.

Do your homework and stand your ground.

I wasn’t hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it’s the ultimate example of too much information.

It’s only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we’re beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

It really hasn’t been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.