Roven Quotes & Sayings

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem. — Vinod Khosla

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage. — Mark Kurlansky

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important. — Charles Roven

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy! — Dalai Lama

I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country. — David Cameron

I don't believe making a movie accessible means you have to dumb them down. — Charles Roven

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film. — Charles Roven

If there were only one meaning for the words, the first interpreter would find it, and all other listeners would have neither the toil of seeking nor the pleasure of finding. — Ephrem The Syrian

I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan. — Charles Roven

I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century. — Charles Roven

The parts of Shaggy, Daphne, Freddie and Velma played by Linda Cardellini are all iconic and not really personality-driven, so it doesn't really matter who plays those roles, ... But it is true that Matthew nailed it. — Charles Roven

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey. — Charles Roven

The story of Kal-El is actually a great story about adoption. He is an alien who has embraced his human side. As much as he loves and honours his heritage, and he needed to know where he came from and discover who he was, he has to decide who he is going to be. — Charles Roven

We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling. — Charles Roven

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision. — Charles Roven

I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the one. He's the one everybody is always compared to. — Charles Roven

How bad does it have to be before you do something about it? — Amy Jenkins

Even in our business, as is the world, we are in the age of specialisation. You see a lot of names of producers on a movie. If you have the idea, if you oversee the development, if you oversee the production, if you help package the movie, you sell the movie - you can be a producer. There's not a lot of us who do the whole gamut. — Charles Roven

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills. — Daniel Tammet

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. — M. F. Husain

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business. — Charles Roven

And it was then I knew I was wrong. I wasn't falling in love with Sam. I was already there. — Kristen Ashley

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good. — Timothy Keller

I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different. — Charles Roven

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star. — Vincent Van Gogh

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. — Charles Roven

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between. — Danny Clinch

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down. — Charles Roven

He shook his head and said, "No, He just went up," pointing his index finger to the ceiling of the room. — Neal Pylant

You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up. — Charles Roven

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists. — Charles Roven