Studios Quotes - Page 23

• Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

  Bruce Nauman

  Anger, Frustration, Finished

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• OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestling, Safety, Found

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• Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

  Esther Williams

  Running, Stars, New York

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• The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Actors, Pay, Kind

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• I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, Next, Pixar

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

  Duncan Sheik

  Couple, Artist, Workaholic

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• All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

  Thomas Lennon

  Curves, Bells, Littles

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• I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes a time when an actress stays too long in the same place. People get used to having you around, and they can`t think of you in a different light.

  Jeanne Crain

  Thinking, Light, Long

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

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• Art comes from life, not from the studio

  Marina Abramovic

  Art

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• I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

  Keren Ann

  Art, Ideas, Knowing

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• We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums direction. It is our most distinctive album to date, combining all our different tastes and styles into one.

  Stuart Price

  Song, Stars, Climbing

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• That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

  Angus Young

  Years, Albums, Done

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• One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.

  Kara Walker

  Memories, Dad, Artist

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• We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Real, Home, Opportunity

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

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Daily Tasks, Lunch, Dinner

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Independent, Thinking, Years

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

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• Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

  Chris Ofili

  Thinking, Sudden Change, Has Beens

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

  Chris Ofili

  Ideas, Body, Way

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

  Frank Ocean

  Singing, Radio, Firsts

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

  Huey Lewis

  Home, Track, Office

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• My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

  Lil Romeo

  Uncles, Dad, House

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• There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

  Roger Corman

  Artist, Venice, Two

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