Quotes About Industry

Hindi films are watched with keen interest in Pakistan, as Pakistani plays are watched in India. Pakistani actors also work in the Indian entertainment industry.

In the Pakistani entertainment industry it's very, very difficult to get your foot in the door if you don't have a network in Karachi or Lahore or in the film circle.

I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.

If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.

I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.

I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.

Being on a major label is like living at your friend's parent's mansion: It's a lot nicer than any apartment we could afford, and the fridge is always full of food.

There are parental concerns when one's daughter joins films.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.

I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.

I have almost forgotten that I have a relationship with film industry as most of the time political meetings, attending Parliament and meeting people of my constituency has been consuming my time.

You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.