Quotes About Industry

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

I work in L.A. from time to time.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's entertainment, nothing more.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.