Movie Business Quotes - Page 4

• I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Important, Spots

  Source: collider.com

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• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Interesting, Lord, Given

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

  Bob Iger

  Mean, Home, Opportunity

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• Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

  Bette Davis

  Movie, Inspiring, Stars

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• The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

  Tony Curtis

  Mind, Twisted, Site

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• Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Hollywood, My Family, Backdrop

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• I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

  Graydon Carter

  Thinking, Want, Surprise

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• The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Skills, Psychology

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

  David Fincher

  Mean, Stories, Use

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• You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

  Christopher Atkins

  Expected, Knows

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

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• The movie business is a big gamble.

  Jackie Chan

  Movie, Actors, Bigs

  "An Interview with Jackie Chan". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

  Sean Penn

  Sarcastic, Peers, Disgusting

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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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• 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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• The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a line in Jonathan Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream" about how "the rich lateral dramas of local manners have been replaced by a single vertical drama, that of commercial generality." I wanted to examine that great homogenizing force that came in during the '90s, since Hollywood seemed a place where it was particularly active.

  Matthew Specktor

  Dream, Drama, Rich

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

  Udo Kier

  Art, Luck, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I feel incredibly blessed. I'm happy, but all of this movie business, and working as an actress is really hard. When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented. What's due for you is due for you, and you don't know when that's going to come. That's something I struggled with after I got out of school, wondering how long I was going to have to wait. Then beautiful jobs started coming to me. Now, I feel that my path is going to be what it's going to be, and as long as I relax and breathe, I can enjoy it.

  Rutina Wesley

  Beautiful, Blessed, School

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If you're going to go into the movie business it is so full of heartbreak and you get so close and it doesn't happen and then once in a while it works out and it is the fantasy, like it is that dream. So riding the highs and lows of it you got to have an iron constitution and you got to be able to do what David Dinkins actually one said - "Well you know some days are good, some days are bad, but anytime there is a bad day I know the next day is going to be good and vice versa, so you just can't put too much stock in that moment."

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Dream, Bad Day, Work Out

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Rome, Differences, People

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Creative, Process

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• I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  World, Tvs, My Family

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