Movie Business Quotes

• The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

  Michael Eisner

  Business, Oil, Lucky

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• We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

  Walt Disney

  Movie, Inspiring, Business

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• The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

  Joel Silver

  Want, Scope, Bigger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

  Wayne Rogers

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• It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

  Lea Thompson

  Shocking, Get Back, Hard

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• I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Basements, Bargains

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

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• I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have that off thing about them. Their whole presence is just a little innocent, I think.

  River Phoenix

  Thinking, Play, People

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• I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

  Sam J. Jones

  Natural, Feels, Security

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• I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

  Wes Anderson

  Doe, Littles, Kind

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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• My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

  David Crosby

  Song, Father, Writing

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• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

  Lisa See

  Los Angeles, Whole Life, Knows

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• The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Thinking, Dimensions

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• One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

  Tucker Max

  Games, Play, People

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• We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

  Javier Bardem

  Business, Crazy, Live In The Moment

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• Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

  David Mamet

  Surprise, Affair, Love Affair

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• Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.

  Paula Wagner

  Art, Believe, Creativity

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• If you're good at something, never do it for free.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Movie, Money, Dark

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

  Casey Robinson

  Movie, Stars, Moon

  1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

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• the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, Reflection

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• See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

  Chuck Zito

  Business, Fortunate

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• The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

  Bill Forsyth

  Emotional, People, Interesting

  Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.

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• The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Term, Only Time, Mines

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mom, Mean, Two

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk the Magic of Belle Isle, the Dark Knight Rises, and Turning Sideways Into a Play". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

  Oliver Reed

  Lunch, Differences, World

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

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