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Quotes About Industry

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.
~ George Steele
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
~ John Kricfalusi
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
~ Penelope Spheeris
Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.
~ Romany Malco
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
~ Lillian Hellman
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
~ Leonard Maltin
Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.
~ Peter Sunde
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
~ David Mamet
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
~ Penelope Spheeris
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
~ Jonathan Frakes
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it
~ Michael Hutchence
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
~ Adam Rich
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
~ Uwe Boll
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.
~ Jack Nicholson
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
~ Victoria Jackson
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Google makes so much money that it's now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
~ Peter Thiel
OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
~ Sydney Pollack
To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
~ Sean Bean
What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.
~ James Schamus
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
~ David Lynch
There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.
~ Mario Batali
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
~ Michel Gondry