“People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an...” — Carlo Ponti Quote

“People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.”

“I don't make deals, I make pictures.”

“There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.”

“When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.”

“Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.”

“When I started playing, my parents told me to go to university. They just said choose wisely and find something you can combine with training.”