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Quotes About Industry

She'd only become a monster to take care of herself in a monstrous business. Underneath she was a neurotic woman, deeply afraid and uncertain of everything except her own genius. - Frank Capra on Bette Davis
~ Shaun Considine
Ridiculous! People come here to write bombs, or direct them, or act in them, not plant them!
~ Shawn Levy
a world in which the hospital industrial complex makes "obsolete" different bodies,
~ Sheila Black
the effect of decensorship was the burgeoning of mass-market pornography. John Sutherland describes how the pornography industry developed in Britain subsequent to the 1959 Act and the great trials. "Meanwhile, in the shadows behind these spotlighted censorship spectacles, 'pornography' was growing steadily from a hole-in-the-corner specialist supply service to a multi-million pound, efficiently organised industry".
~ Sheila Jeffreys
I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.
~ Nicolas Cowan
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
~ Paul Simon
In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
~ Olivier Theyskens
For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.
~ Rebel Wilson
I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.
~ Richard Masur
[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.
~ Ellen Goodman
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
~ Gabourey Sidibe
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
~ Garth Brooks
The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee
Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.
~ Gil Kane
Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.
~ Ice Cube
White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
~ Idris Elba
I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
~ Jake Kasdan
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
~ James Purdy
I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.
~ Jeff Bridges
You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
~ Jeff Bridges
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
~ Joni Mitchell
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
~ Randy Jackson
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
~ Uday Kiran