Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Bevan

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

There's a trend in Hollywood at the moment where studio executives are coming from more of a marketing background, and that is challenging. I think one of the problems of marketing executives is that they don't understand how films get made and they're a bit nervous. And that is not the most efficient way to be a studio executive.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.