“The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.” TryingArtBookSoulBeautifulFilmDangerousWinnerLoserBrutalLiberatingMovie Business Author:Ronnie Apteker
“Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!” PeopleImportantLaughing Author:Ronnie Apteker
“In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.” PeoplePurposeSupport Author:Garrett Hedlund
“If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.” TryingActingLike You Author:Ang Lee
“Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers that do like to be told thank you for your service. The ones who don't like to be told are the ones who've been through serious sh*t. They don't care about feedback. They did their job. They did what they have to do. Sometimes the people that thank them are exactly the ones they don't want to be thanked by.” PeopleSometimesCareSeriousSoldierFeedback Author:Garrett Hedlund
“There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.” Film Author:Garrett Hedlund
“There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.” WealthEconomyEconomicSuicideOwnership Author:Michael Hudson
“I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.” EconomyEconomicCapitalismPraiseBlameProductive Author:Chris Hedges
“The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It's gone to Wall Street, to real estate.” WorldWarRealTodayGrowthEconomicRevolutionWallWar Of The WorldsWorld War IEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.” Get Money Author:Michael Hudson