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. ”

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. ”

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting. ”

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. ”

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no. ”

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot. ”

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes. ”

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 - simple. ”

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

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