Quotes About Industry

When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"