Eric Fellner
Eric Fellner
Eric Fellner, CBE is an English film producer. He is the co-chairmanof the production company Working Title Films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionProducer
simple thinking people
People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.
pain thinking creative
I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible.
thinking tvs film
Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?
thinking special way
But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.
good producers yes
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
ken leigh mike movies people
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
agents almost anyone cent cruise knowing might per record sound time tom track
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.
business creative good less word
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.
audience cater curtain earlier family itself time
'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.
brothers certain coen minute strength trying watch
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.
genuinely regardless scripts
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.
next success time worrying
You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
force stunning tour visual
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.