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Quotes About Industry

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
~ Lance Bass
A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
~ Lauren Conrad
At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.
~ Lauren Shuler Donner
These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.
~ Lester Bowie
As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.
~ Linda Evangelista
I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.
~ Lucinda Williams
Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe
~ Lykke Li
A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.
~ Maria Rodale
When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
~ Mickey Gilley
I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.
~ Mindy Kaling
Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.
~ Mira Nair
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
~ Norman Jewison
You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.
~ Patricia Arquette
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
~ Pete Wentz
I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.
~ Peter Andre
But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
~ Obie Trice
I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.
~ Rick DeJesus
The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
~ John Boyd Orr
I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.
~ Prince
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
~ Peter Mayhew
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.
~ Chalmers Johnson
The film industry began in 1910 with the production of D. W. Griffith's movie In Old California and grew by bounds.
~ Susan Orlean