Quotes About Industry

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don't want me to do well.

Louisiana is a trade powerhouse.

When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

It always feels good when you hear another guy in your industry give you praise.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

Kaante' will help the film industry. Very few films are like this one - pre-production in Europe, one-schedule shoot, well planned post-production.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

Bhojpuri film industry is very small - precisely eight people govern the whole industry and I am one of them.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the industry to where I would have any preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be.

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

You can never predict a hit.

One can't predict a film's success or failure.

People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over, that it was just a fad. But we didn't anticipate being knocked out of the pocket altogether.