Studios Quotes - Page 24

• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Evening, Canvas

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• If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

  Noah Wyle

  Girlfriend, Father, Hollywood

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• Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

  David Mamet

  Stars, Character, Mean

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• . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre.

  Craig Lucas

  Couple, Real, Artist

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• [Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.

  Stanley Tucci

  Dog, Character, Independent

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• My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

  Akon

  Ideas

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.

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• EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!

  Ben Weinman

  Guitar, Games, Innovation

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• I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Drama, School, Sound

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Men, Totems, Bottom

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• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  J. B. Priestley

  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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• All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

  Alexander Liberman

  Art, Torture, Solitary

  1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.

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• If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Actors, Agents, Steps

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• It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Kids, Ideas, Want

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• Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

  Ronnie Spector

  Years, California, Next Day

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• If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

  Bryan Singer

  Men, Giving, Want

  "X-men’s Bryan Singer Versus Avengers And Iron Man". Interview with James Hoare, www.scifinow.co.uk. May 20, 2014.

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• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Insult, Producers

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• On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

  John Fogerty

  Eye, Zombie, Musician

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• Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.

  John Berger

  Art, Doors, Engineering

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• I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

  Judd Apatow

  Running, Thinking, Cities

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• Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

  Roy Ayers

  Long, Records, Back In The Day

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• Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artist’s worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians aren’t interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain.

  Paddy Johnson

  Art, Two, Brain

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• There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Discipline, Imagination

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• I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

  Ken Burns

  Editing, Records, Shapes

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• I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

  Bob Seger

  Real, Joy, Musician

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets: An Interview With Bob Seger". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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