Movie Business Quotes - Page 3

• You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Use, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that it would affect my personal relations. And she said how worried she was that people would take advantage of me or I would meet the wrong people. When I was made head of the studio, one of her first things was, "Well, now no one will marry you. I hope you'll be happy, whatever."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.

  Sherry Lansing

  Jobs, Memories, Blessed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I believe that things kind of happen for a reason. But at the same time my real mission is just to continue working in the movie business with the scripts I enjoy, characters that challenge me and people that I admire. It's such a great business when you're in it and the ability to do things that even surprise you is continually evident. For me, it's just about challenging myself - that's the biggest thing - and taking care of my child and paying my bills.

  Julian McMahon

  Children, Real, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Creative differences are legendary in this movie business, so we're really not exploring the creative-difference aspect as opposed to the money aspect, or the fact that something can come up in a movie and literally put the whole movie on the line, and this is where producers have to earn their keep.

  Barry Levinson

  Creative, Legendary, Producers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

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

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• I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Grows, Publishing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

  Matthew Specktor

  Feelings, Los Angeles, Mixed Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.

  Meghan Daum

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Directors, Want

  "Matt Damon On ‘Elysium,’ Turning Down ‘Avatar,’ And The State Of Hollywood Today". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 01, 2013.

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• I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Inspired, Grad

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.

  Henry Blodget

  Done, Television, Crowds

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Input

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

  Bob Iger

  Home, Impact, Ipods

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• When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

  Joe Dante

  War, People, Zombie

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• I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Years, Trying, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Golf, Play

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• The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

  Jeremy Renner

  Song, Expression, Play

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

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Anxiety, Principles

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.251, Macmillan

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Sweet, Nice, Wow

  Interview with Erik Davis, www.fandango.com. July 12, 2012.

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• The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Good Movie, Example, Dollars

  Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2007.

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