Quotes About Industry

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.

I don't have one person that's a mentor. I have so many different people that do so many different things within the industry. And they've all been working for so long that they give me little pieces of advice here and there.

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.

Pilot season isn't perfect, and it certainly is a very difficult time. But pilot season does work for us.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.