Quotes About Industry

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There's a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants to write a script and then let it go when they've had that much of a personal investment to it, because you're not getting paid huge amounts of money in Australia to direct.

Investors tend to avoid food companies.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

It is hard to have a fashion business in any country, but even more difficult in Ireland.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.

When I see good films not doing well, irrespective of my role being appreciated or not, I have a problem because then the producer who has made a loss will never believe in investing in good cinema.

I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.