Studios Quotes - Page 30

• If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

  Thomas Lennon

  Pages, Ifs

  "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

  Thomas Lennon

  Jobs, Writing, Best Job

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• When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

  Thomas Lennon

  Two, People, Three

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• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  Zachary Levi

  Independent, People, Want

  "Zachary Levi CHUCK Series Finale Set Visit Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

  Robert Morse

  Senior, People, Clubs

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

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• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

  Ann Macbeth

  Drama, Opportunity, Light

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• No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

  Anthony Minghella

  Ambitious, Mountain, Hollywood

  "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

  Bill Mumy

  Different, Lucky, Favorites Things

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

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• I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

  Chuck Mangione

  Thinking, Albums, Watches

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• There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

  Eric McCormack

  Voice, Grace, Episodes

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• Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

  Glen Mazzara

  People, Guy, Forget

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• I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

  Glen Mazzara

  Drama, Firsts, Honest

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• I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

  St. Vincent

  Song, Actors, Computer

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• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Ironic

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

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• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  Rachel Weisz

  Party, Oscars

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• A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

  Richard Widmark

  College, Actors, Said

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• The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

  Rick Wakeman

  Writing, Needs, Next

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Summer, School, Vacation

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

  Dave Grohl

  Fun, Wander, Walks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

  Tim Willits

  Cutting, Technology, Years

  "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.

  Nick Rhodes

  Home, Going Out, Sometimes

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• I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

  Stone Gossard

  Song, Impact, Play

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• A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.

  Ken Adam

  Reality, Atmosphere, Shooting

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• The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

  Ken Adam

  Foundation, Max, Berlin

  "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.

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