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“Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.”

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Author:Silvio Scaglia

“Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”

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Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“Producing and distributing premium TV entertainment content is more 'global' now than at any point in the history of the business. World Screen does an excellent job in following the news, trends and key players. It's a must-read for those in the business of global TV and brings us that much closer to prospective buyers and distributors of our premium content.”

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Author:Chris Albrecht

“The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.”

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Author:Scott McCloud

“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.”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.”

“If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Matter Stories Sells Making Money Appeals Filmmaker Distributors

Author:Anne Makepeace

“Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.”

Book Reader Library Digital Distributors Gatekeepers

Author:Jonathan Zittrain

“Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.”

Two Theatrical Variables Distributors

Author:Tucker Max

“One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.”

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Author:Jamie Hyneman

“No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.”

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Author:Alante Kavaite

“There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.”

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Author:John Sayles

“Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.”

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Author:Lynne Ramsay

“A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.”

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Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.”

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Author:Bob Iger

“Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.”

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Author:David Twohy

“Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.”

Men Whole Facts Civilization Distributors

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.”

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Author:Anita Ekberg

“All over the world there are a lot of distributors that have the equipment for 3D but they don't have the movies really. The only source of 3D movies is Hollywood. Only Hollywood sends the 3D movies. So it was an option.”

World Source Hollywood Equipment Distributors

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.”

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Author:John Stossel

“I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.”

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Author:Noel Clarke

“We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought”

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Author:Brian Ebejer

“If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.”

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Author:Bill Ackman

“When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.”

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Author:Gail Zappa

“What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.”

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Author:Alex Gibney

“Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It is allowing the heart to be the distributor of energy on this planet; to allow feelings and sensitivities to determine where energy goes; bringing aliveness up from the Earth and from the Sky, putting it in and giving it out from the heart.”

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Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle

“In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].”

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Author:Emmanuelle Bercot

“People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.”

People Distribution Distributors

Author:Thomas Bidegain

“There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.”

“I put that in my management's hands and my company's hands. We sit down all together, the family, D-Block, my management and I go build with KOCH, the distributor. You open up your own sites, you get your MySpace, you get your websites and get your little digital team on the side... and that's how you handle that.”

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Author:Styles P

“Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.”

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Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.”

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Author:Jill Soloway

“It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.”

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Author:Liv Ullmann

“I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.”

Goal Wide Release Theatrical Distributors

Author:Eli Roth

“friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps”

Caps Distributors

Book:Urban Shaman

Source: Urban Shaman

“It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.”

“We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.”

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Author:Julia Gillard

“But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.”

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Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.”

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Author:Linda Fiorentino

“Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.”

People Done Benefits Attorney Distributors

Author:Mark Shurtleff

“Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

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