Quotes About Studios

I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Hollywood more money than cinemas, DVDs, and everything else combined.

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

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 had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.

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

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It's not pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it's very friendly and easygoing.

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

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