Quotes About Industry

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.

I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

Even after nine flops, an actor will get his tenth film. But, if a director gives a flop after nine hits, he will not get another film. That is the way the industry functions.

I started in the restaurant industry when I was 22, so I've had quite a long tenure, if you will.

I know a Bollywood actress' tenure is limited.

Some say a model's tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.