Quotes About Industry

There is always a hit and a flop, it's part of working in the film industry.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

One cannot survive in Bollywood without focusing on entertainment.

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.

It's taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn't mean that I have to eat every minute of every day.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

One of the things I truly enjoy about my job is the dynamic nature of having a foot in each world - the world of the talent, who create our product - and the world of our business in which we market, distribute, and monetize that product.

Being a mum and keeping a foot in the top end of the industry has not been easy.

Andaaz' gave me a firm footing in the industry. I would not be honest if I said I knew it would do well.

Out of sheer respect for the people I look up to in the industry, I do say 'yes' to projects at times. It helps me learn a lot. Also, if I am playing a small role in a good, content-driven film, I say yes to it. But there have been times when I said 'no' to films because I was not convinced with the content.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

There is no formula to enter Bollywood. It's a lot to do with luck.