Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Graham King

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English producer Graham King.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Graham King

Graham King is an English film producer. King was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the films The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and winning for The Departed (2006).

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.
Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.
I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back. — © Graham King
I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.
I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.
I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans.
On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.
I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.
It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends.
I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.
Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.
The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.
I'm really a one-man band.
It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.
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