Movie Industry Quotes

• The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

  Dan Glickman

  Stories, Paper, Industry

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• The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

  Dan Glickman

  Technology, Way, Entertainment

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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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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  "Mic, then movie: Ice Cube plays Soundset while prepping N.W.A. biopic (and 'Barbershop 3')". Interview with Chris Riemenschneider, www.startribune.com. May 22, 2015.

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• The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Hate, People, Rabbits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  Kabir Bedi

  Film, Hindi, Industry

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• All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

  Clive James

  Movie, Effort, Hollywood

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  Jackie Chan

  Movie, Actors, Ups & Downs

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• Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Individuality, Hollywood, Paradox

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• I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Men, Casting, Honest

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• The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

  Stefanie Powers

  People, Used, Made

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• Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Guy, Computer, Changed

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Middle East, Force, Company

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• I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

  Paz Vega

  Chinese, Problem, Film

  "Paz Vega Makes Peace With Shanghai" by Jonathan Landreth, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Stars, Television, Tvs

  IGN FilmForce Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2005.

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• This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

  Michael Medved

  People, Politics, Feels

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• I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.

  Val Kilmer

  Ignorance, Thinking, Facts

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

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• In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, America, Criticism

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• Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

  Ennio Morricone

  Writing, Used, Score

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Mark Rydell

  Fun, Ideas, Needs

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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Running, School, Ostriches

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• Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

  Elayne Boosler

  Children, Animal, Organization

  "Yes, Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Motion Picture" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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