Quotes About Industry

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something.

When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn't grown at the same rate. So I think there's a bit of a creative tax on the system.

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.

When hip-hop was new and raw, it was all about being an MC. You wanted to be respected as a lyricist. But as the years passed and hip-hop became big business, hip-hop became like country, rock and pop. And so you now have people who write the songs for rappers.

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

The Rays are kind of the envy of the industry based on so many good arms with so much good stuff and they seem to be able to handle high leverage moments... Nobody develops and executes pitching as well as they do, and that's a big part of their success.

I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.