Film Industry Quotes - Page 2

• Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

  Thomas Perry

  Bedtime, Film, Process

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Giving

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Open Minded, Korean, Film

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• The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

  Edward Norton

  Needs, Way, Film

  "Edward Norton offers Earth-friendly advice" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  People, Trying, England

  "He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Technology, People, Together

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• It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

  Amber Heard

  Meaningful, Half, Film

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• Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

  Tom Felton

  Writing, Acting, Want

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

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• When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

  Julian Fellowes

  Jobs, Cutting, Insecure

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• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, California

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  Kabir Bedi

  Film, Hindi, Industry

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

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• I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

  Guy Pearce

  Mean, Thinking, Unfortunate Things

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

  Lesley Gore

  Men, Thinking, Records

  "'It's My Party' singer Lesley Gore dead at 68" by Shaun Tandon, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2015.

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• If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

  Peter Farrelly

  Kissing, Six Months, Film

  "Hall Pass' Peter Farrelly and Pete Jones". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2011.

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• There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

  Jodelle Ferland

  Jobs, Schedules, Film

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• The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Exercise, Profound

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• You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Emotional, People

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• I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

  Winona Ryder

  Good Friend, Feel Good, Supportive

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• I want to print books by people in the film industry.

  Brett Ratner

  Book, People, Want

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• Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  India, Different, Might

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