Studios Quotes - Page 39

• I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

  Moby

  Inspiration, Writing, Love Is

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• I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

  Ringo Starr

  Three, Lines, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

  Steven Pressfield

  Numbers, Dvds, Quality

  Source: goinswriter.com

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• It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

  Nora Ephron

  Running, People, Infinite

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.64, Melville House

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• Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Littles, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Stuff, Sells

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Stuff, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Criticism, Steps

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?

  Carole Katchen

  Doors, Tomorrow, Muse

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• I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

  Kodi Smit-McPhee

  Fun, Independent, Done

  "SXSW 2014: Kodi Smit-McPhee Talks THE WILDERNESS OF JAMES, Being Free with the Character, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 09, 2014.

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• There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.

  Toby Keith

  Player, Years, Hot

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• That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

  DJ Qualls

  Jobs, Real, Navy

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.

  John Cena

  Drama, Eye, Thinking

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

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• Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Dancer, Musician, Backup

  "Mike Birbiglia Talks About 'I'm In The Future Also' Tour". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 07, 2009.

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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Play

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

  Aretha Franklin

  Tired, Trying, Enjoy

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• I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Use, Microscopes

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  Walter Huston

  Simple, Years, Voice

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

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• If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

  Eric Idle

  Artist, Able, Executives

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

  Robert Stack

  Hands, Space, Strange Stories

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• The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.

  Brian J. White

  Hard Work, Humility, Example

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• I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

  Diana Ross

  Looks, New Music

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• You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Air, Space

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• I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Want, Helping

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