“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.” LittlesFunnyToo MuchFiguresFitMajorsRainHollywoodEnglandStudiosWeatherShootingCaliforniaUpsetSchedulesMetroWeathermenMayer Author:Bob Hope
“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.” PeopleIfsKnowsCountryStoriesCareJobsLyingDifferencesMediaStupidFiguresTvsLike YouShotsHollywoodConstantProducersAgentsTitlesExecutivesLos AngelesEditorsGuestsEpisodesIncapableWithdrawalComaJob Titles Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.” Has BeensRealBeautifulFiguresFitGainsHollywoodSticksSellingTrendsGrotesqueCurvyReal WomenBroomsticksCurvy Women Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.” KnowsWantDoeHappenedFiguresHollywoodBenghazi Author:Dana Perino
“Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.” PeopleTryingBeliefStupidFiguresHollywoodIntelligentContraryNot StupidContrary To Popular Belief Author:Peter Berg
“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.” WorldCountryTermFiguresMastersOfficeHollywoodBoxesStudiosFranceCinemaAnimationBox OfficeSmall CountriesHollywood StudiosSavoir Faire Author:Michel Ocelot
“Ive always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywoods eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.” StillsBigsEyeSchoolPerfectFiguresHairBabyHigh SchoolHollywoodSticksTallSkinnyBlondeBootyBlonde HairPerfect Woman Author:Coco Austin
“I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.” TryingYearsEndsStoriesTogetherFilmProcessHeardFiguresReadyHollywoodScriptsStudiosProducersConclusionShootingReportsEfficiencyConsultantsHollywood Studios Author:Joseph Kosinski
“Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.” TryingShowsFiguresProgramHollywoodAdd Author:Ice Cube
“I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.” ThinkingWorldTryingBigsKidsNextHellStudyHappenedFiguresHollywoodEngineeringNext DayRulingSwedishWorld Famous Author:Dolph Lundgren
“It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.” IfsHappensStarsChanceStepsMillionsFiguresWindHollywoodEightAccidentsChains Author:Clark Gable
“If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.” IfsWantFiguresNew YorkHollywoodEntertainmentDetroit Author:Nick Cannon
“I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last” IfsLongLastsGuyWonderFiguresHollywoodInsecurityInsecure Author:Alan Ladd