Quotes About Industry

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.

Every network wants to capture new viewers, but that's up to the networks.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.