Quotes About Industry

But Hollywood cinema remains profoundly conservative, profoundly stupid, and often painful. About one out of every ten films is okay, meaning a little bit better than the average.

Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable demand of our captains of industry for cheap labor. To-day

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

What started as a struggle for equal rights and a more color-blind society has turned into a major industry--the victim industry. Like the rest of the Left establishment, today's black civil-rights establishment--the Misery Merchants, as I call them--work to propagate divisions and hopelessness, with the single goal of holding onto the money, power, and prestige that come from leading the supposedly downtrodden.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

Most of the other employees have been through company collapses before, so while they're unhappy, for them this is just another episode of life in the software industry.

If the Japanese ever got a foothold, British bikes would quickly become only a nostalgic memory.

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

Every so often, the hospitality industry gives us a champion - a bright spark that lights up a room and makes everyone feel that little bit extra special just by being around them. Simon Lay - aka. Charles Bronson from the East - was such a man.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

I have a very good reputation in the industry; my work speaks for me.

I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

I try to help out everyone at NASCAR whenever I can. It will always be a special place for me and certainly my family, so I'll do whatever I can to help the industry.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.

I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.