Quotes About Industry

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

There are people much better placed to make music than me. It's always been a young person's game.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?

From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We've had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a place of industry anymore.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

I don't have a manager who's secretly on Interscope. I'm the complete opposite of an industry plant.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.