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If I wasn't the head of a studio, who would talk to me?

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.

I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.

Major motion picture studios spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to capture some of whatever it is that makes our little 'Sharknado' movie globally popular.