Jonathan Mostow (born November 28, 1961, Woodbridge, CT) is an American film director, writer and producer.
He also has produced and created The Megas with Virgin Comics, which he is fast-tracking into a feature film.
"You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope. There's no prize you get when you come back to the studio at the end and say here's your refund of what we didn't spend."
"I'm just having read on the Internet, there's been a lot of chatter about you know, the length and I'm reading all these people bitching about it."
"Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that."
"But you can also go out and hire some kid from MTV to direct a movie and tell him how to do everything and then you wind up with some shlocky picture."
"The heart of the film is the story." - [about Terminator 3: Rise of Machines]
"I would say that if there was one person I'd be nervous about showing this movie to, it's him (James Cameron)." - [on his view about showing Terminator 3 to James Cameron]
"Linda Hamilton is too important to the franchise to stick her in as the third wheel. So then I realized, you know what, it's actually better if she's not in the movie." - [about his reason for avoiding Linda Hamilton in Terminator 3]
"Biologically, yes, he is John Connor and he's the same person technically, but from a character point of view, he's a very different character now. So I felt I wanted to throw out all assumptions and start from scratch and say who's the best actor to play this part." - [about his reason for replacing Edward Furlong by Nick Stahl in Terminator 3]
