Quotes About Industry

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

The financial service industry has an image issue.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.

The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the way I feel I should be dealt with in this industry.

I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric.

I am tired of saying no to item songs. I don't want to be known as an item number girl.

I believe in cinema! Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Hindi cinema is non-cinema. Only marketing works here. Even the item songs in these films are an extension of marketing.

I'd been an artist since I was 17 and I was used to just putting things on iTunes. So I was like, I need to educate myself and figure out the new industry.

I did some really big films like 'Vaastav' with Sanjay Dutt, 'Pukar' with Anil Kapoor, and 'Jab Pyar Kissi se Hota Hai' with Salman Khan. But I didn't make any effort to cash in on their success.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

I'm sure most actors, after a while, get a bit jaded.

Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.

Me and Jamie have grown up together and we work in the same industry and I quite often feel very lucky. Doing 'Stath' I look across the room and think, 'Not only is one of my best friends here, but he's also my brother.'

Jane Campion is a tough director.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

It wasn't really my intention to make movies quickly - it's more to do with the reality of the Japanese film industry. That's been the only way for me to change my situation; to prove how little time you need to make a good film.

For those that don't know, a Ronin is a Japanese word for masterless samurai and in the wrestling industry that is how I see myself.

In real life, I'm not a catty, jealous woman, so in the industry I'm not gonna be that. I'm a real-life fan of the girls who came before me, who's coming up and at the same level as me. I'm here for it.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood? Yeah, there are.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.