Movie Business Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."

  Ben Affleck

  Crazy, People, Stuff

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2012.

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• I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

  Ron Perlman

  Movie, Art, Fire

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• I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that.

  Freddie Highmore

  Thinking, People, Film

  "The Art of Getting By - Freddie Highmore interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• 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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• The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

  Daniel Craig

  Criminals

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

  Sam Elliott

  Art, People, Way

  "Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott Play 70ish Leads in "I’ll See You in My Dreams". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. May 11, 2015.

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• If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

  Michael Eisner

  Kissing, Years, Television

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Years, Two

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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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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• Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

  John Carpenter

  Horror, Found

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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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• When I got into the movie business, working with actors was the one thing I was really weak at. I didn't know what to say to actors. They scared me and intimidated me. The actors that I've worked with who have had a lot of experience, or who I've even grown up watching as a kid, were really scary. I was like, "What am I going to say to this person?" But, I've matured. It's fun. I understand what actors do now.

  John Carpenter

  Fun, Kids, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Interesting, Wonderful

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• In 24 years in the movie business, you have a lot of doors slammed in your face, and a lot of people say mean things. Every time, I'm constantly surprised at how the span of time gets quicker that I get okay with it, and I'm over it. That's been an interesting thing to learn.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Mean, Doors, Years

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks the Client List, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Skills, Psychology

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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