Quotes About Industry

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

I didn't think I ever knew how one managed to be so lucky as to work in this industry. It was a dream I was a little bit embarrassed by.

The luxury industry has always been a little bit counter-cyclical.

I want to be a machine.

The economy is like a machine.

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Siemens is a job machine.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

I like mainstream cinema. I like films that are definitely commercial. I try and stick to that as much as possible.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

I really want my music to go mainstream.

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

I haven't got the kind of films from mainstream cinema which I would have wanted. But then mainstream cinema has a different bunch of people who are happy working with each other, which is fine.

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

Maybe I should be making more mainstream films if I want to get some money.

It took me 15 years of being in the industry to know that you need makeup and styling when you go out, that you need to have PR.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.