Quotes About Industry

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but the music industry hasn't really got payment of people right at all, to be honest.

Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

The story is important for any movie, for it is in the film industry, the consumer pays the money before he or she gets the product. So, the responsibility of delivering a good product is on us.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.

The Grammys to me, well, that's my peers. That's the industry thinking what I do is good.

For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

We tend to perceive Hollywood as an industry that is trying to mitigate risk more and more.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.