Quotes About Industry

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.