“The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.” CompanyNormalApproachHollywoodMarketingProductionsStudiosDistribution Author:Robert Simonds
“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.” ThinkingYoungGuyProcessViewsCompanyTechnologyCreativeJokesSittingHollywoodDrinkingBunchBeerValleysCreative ProcessCouchesSiliconSilicon ValleyDrinking Beer Author:Steve Jobs
“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.” IfsMadeSelfFilmArtistInterestUnitedCompanyGreaterReturnHollywoodMarkProtectionAllowingDistributionSelf InterestAlliancesCrazinessDistributorsHartChaplin Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.” WorldWantAbleWantedArtistCompanyHollywoodProductionsGreat Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.” KnowsGovernmentCompanyHollywoodTowns Author:Murray Horwitz
“People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.” PeopleKnowsShowsRealityEyeNextCompanySuccessfulFireDoorsHollywoodNeighborAbandonBathroomRecklessReality ShowsMultiplyingNext Door NeighborsSocialitesReckless Abandon Author:Johnny Depp