Movie Business Quotes - Page 4

• I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

  Richard Masur

  Years, Miracle, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've told this to screenwriters, you have to do. You have to be there in order to write or direct movies.

  Shane Black

  Believe, Writing, Honestly

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• It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

  John Frankenheimer

  Needs, Way, Assignments

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

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• It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

  Kevin McKidd

  Mean, Looks, Paper

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• I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

  Francis Lawrence

  Thinking, Big Families, Littles

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

  Brett Ratner

  Age, Needs, Ifs

  "'Horrible Bosses' Almost Once Starred Ashton Kutcher, Johnny Knoxville; Sequels Discussed" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2011.

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• I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

  Jeremy Renner

  Actors, Singers, Impossible

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

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• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Believe, People

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• I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

  Richard Masur

  Lucky, Firsts, Right Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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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• You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

  Natalie Portman

  Likes

  "New Again: Natalie Portman". Interview With Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Book, Months

  Source: nerdist.com

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