Movie Business Quotes - Page 2

• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, Sometimes, Bigs

  "An Interview With Jackie Chan". www.ign.com. September 25, 2012.

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• with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Rooms, Stills

  Lynda Obst (2014). “Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Ego Problem, Egomaniacs

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• I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cheated, I Cheated, Meant To Be

  Source: the-talks.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  Vince Gilligan

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

  Denise Di Novi

  Perseverance, Passion, Dedication

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

  Linda Fiorentino

  Basements, Bargains

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

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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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• Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

  Lynda Obst

  Hollywood, Remember, Rich

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• When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

  Henry Blodget

  Television, Ends

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

  Chuck Zito

  Business, Fortunate

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• I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Important, Being The Best

  Source: collider.com

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