Quotes About Industry

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it was a lot of it, so the negative cost was very high, the print costs were very high, and it also required conversion of the projectors and theaters and a lot of costs. I just couldn't get any traction in the theatrical movie industry to do it.

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

I believe that whenever an overall view or theme is applied to an entire industry, bad decisions will be made.

The concert industry lags dramatically behind the great hospitality businesses out there, whether they're theme parks or hotels or sporting events.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

These pages capture a turning point in the entertainment industry, as told through the personal lens of one family.

In addition to Eisenhower identifying the military-industrial complex, we now have the police-industrial complex, the medical-industrial complex, the surveillance-industrial complex, and the media-industrial complex.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Whenever you see the words "fat free" or "low-fat," think of the words "chemical shit storm.

That's weird. 'Cause many high-ranking staff members at the USDA were employed by, or are otherwise affiliated with, the meat and dairy industries.159 And if the group responsible for "the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products" is run by people from the same industries they're supposed to be protecting us from . . . well, that would be a conflict of interest. And it is.

The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s - poor distribution of income, a weak banking structure and insufficient regulations, the economy's dependence on new consumer goods, the over-extension of industry and the Government's blind belief that promoting business interests would make America uniformly prosperous.