“I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.” ThinkingFilmPositionIndustryFilm Industry Author:Will Oldham
“The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.” AmericaFilmUsedIndustryInternationalBoundariesUsed To BeFranceAppealsPotMeltingFilm IndustryMelting PotAmerican Movie Author:Howard Stringer
“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.” PeopleWritingWould BeFilmActorsCareersIndustryStartingWriting LifeFilm IndustryStarting To Write Author:James Franco
“National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.” ShowsFeelingsFilmMovingIndustryRight NowHollywoodCinemaAustraliaCyclesMisleadFilm Industry Author:Peter Weir
“I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.” FeelsPersonsFilmFansIndustryFestivalsFilm Industry Author:Melanie Lynskey
“Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.” WorldAmericaFilmWorstIndustryDesperateBritainImitationFilm Industry Author:Catherine McCormack
“If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.” IfsShouldMadeFilmPassionNextEnergyIndustryNext DayFilm Industry Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.” FilmClassMiddleTelevisionIndustryIndiaEverydayCinemaMiddle ClassHallsFilm IndustryMiddle Class Family Author:Lavrenti Lopes
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.” IfsThinkingLooksDifferentBeautifulFilmActorsSoundIndustryAgingAcceptedFortyPrimeBeautiful ThingsFilm Industry Author:Michiel Huisman
“The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.” MadeFilmDifficultIndustryFilm IndustryFickleFinancing Author:Chloe Sevigny
“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.” WayFilmFatherGrowsGrowing UpIndustryDirectorsFilm Industry Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.” HeartFilmPowerfulBabyIndustryOffersWorthyOctoberFilm IndustryOpen Your HeartAccolades Author:Judie Brown
“The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.” InspirationalLongFilmSecretWonderfulIndustryLocationFilm IndustryLong Marriage Author:Christopher Lee
“The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.” MeanEnoughSeemsFilmCrazyIndustryWestDareScaryMusic IndustryFilm IndustryWild WestWild Wild West Author:Anna Kendrick
“I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.” FilmStarsRecordsDogIndustryPoundsRealismFistsUnconditionalFilm IndustryDog Love Author:DMX
“I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.” IfsJobsFilmHalfCasesIndustryFocusedProfessionLuxuryHarshFilm IndustryLimelight Author:Deepika Padukone
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsPlayStoriesFilmFoundInterestChanceStepsComedyDangerousProductsIndustryHeroCircumstancesHorrorOffersAnd LoveLove StoryWarriorNativeVillainNative AmericanIgnoredGrossMockeryThrillersFilm IndustryDead EndsDorkBrokenheartedMovies And LoveFound Dead Author:Misty Upham
“Bachchan has been in the film industry over 35 years and he is the real king. There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan” YearsHas BeensRealFilmIndustryKingsFilm Industry Author:Akshay Kumar
“The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.” FilmIndustrySickMovieEcosystemsFilm Industry Author:Bette Midler
“My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.” NeedsDoeFilmTermSimpleIndustryContactFilm Industry Author:Werner Herzog
“Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.” ThinkingWayBelieveStillsFilmTurnsTvsIndustryInternetPhonesCinemaFilm IndustryI Still Believe Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.” KindReasonKidsAbleActionWantedFilmWatchesGrewIndustryGrew UpInspiredBeing A WomanFilm IndustryUnimaginableAction Movie Author:Zoe Saldana
“Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.” PeopleFilmIndustryPeterFilm IndustryArmstrong Author:David Wenham
“It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.” StillsFilmIndustryBritishStormFilm IndustryWeatheredBritish Film Author:Peter Capaldi
“In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.” ThinkingFilmLeftInfluenceIndustryPicksVisibleVansFilm IndustryJackieVan Damme Author:Scott Adkins
“I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.” WorldMadeFilmGamesIndustryEasierBaseballDebtMade ItEntrancesFilm Industry Author:Chuck Connors
“It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.” PeopleWorldTryingFilmActorsEasyForgetIndustrySavingRecognitionObsessedSave The WorldFilm Industry Author:Charlie Cox
“The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it.” WayNeedsHardJobsFilmFightingFocusIndustryCreatingToughRaisesExcuseLabelsMaking MoneyTensionControversyTough TimesMusic IndustryFilm IndustryPiracy Author:Mark Cuban