Studios Quotes - Page 8

• When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  People, Pressure, Producers

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• In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

  Cindy Crawford

  Trying, Blank, Staring

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• I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

  Puff Daddy

  Hands, Records, Reason

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• I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

  Puff Daddy

  Congratulations, Target, Magazines

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• I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

  Roger Daltrey

  Cold, Used

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• I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Done, Way

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• Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

  Bette Davis

  Years, Sound, Location

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• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

  Walt Disney

  Genius

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Hands, Looks, Should

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• Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

  Drake

  Nice, Rapper, Car

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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• When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.

  Dr. Dre

  Inspiration, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, Parent, Tunes

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

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• When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Shopping, Matter, Universal Studios

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• For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

  Fred Durst

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mouths

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• I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Television

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Looks

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Independent, Actors, Way

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

  Brian Eno

  Night

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• I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

  Enya

  Beach, Writing, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

  Mike Epps

  Mean, Men, Together

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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• I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

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• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  Vera Farmiga

  Home, Mean, Independent

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• Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, School, People

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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