Peter Bart Quotes

• Do your homework and stand your ground.

  Peter Bart

  Interesting, Homework, Stand Your Ground

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• Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

  Peter Bart

  Attitude, Gay, Velvet

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• Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

  Peter Bart

  Stars, Study, Behavior

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

  Peter Bart

  Light, Decision, Green

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• We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

  Peter Bart

  Kind

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• The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

  Peter Bart

  Commitment, Media, Financial

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• That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

  Peter Bart

  Surprise

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• The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Creative, Hollywood

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• Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Two, Next

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• Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

  Peter Bart

  Stars, Example, Too Much Information

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• Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

  Peter Bart

  Leaving, Lasts, October

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Hollywood

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• It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Levels, Corporations

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• I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

  Peter Bart

  New York, Manhattan, Grew Up

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Movie, Summer, Past

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• The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

  Peter Bart

  Running, People, Half

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