Quotes About Industry

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.