“Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.” BelieveEndsProcessHollywoodExecutives Author:Leonard Maltin
“I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsProcessFineHealthyTraditionHollywoodFringe Author:Tim Heidecker
“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
“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?” IfsYearsFirstsWantedFilmThreeProcessPresidentAudienceWeekTelevisionRevolutionHollywoodCreditCables Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayMadeDifferentStoriesSeemsMightProcessNumbersCreativeMediaHe ManPerspectiveMen And WomenHollywoodStudiosAdmireGoldenErasObsessedFilmmakerTortureCreative ProcessAdoreInkForefathers Author:Steven Spielberg
“And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.” WantTryingSometimesFilmDesireProcessForgetCasesOne ThingWeekHollywoodThirdsShootingEditingAviatorTry Your Best Author:Martin Scorsese
“Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.” KnowsWritingTryingFirstsStillsWholeHappensStuffProcessStageStrangeHollywoodYeahScriptsBunchBoiling Author:James Wan
“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
“I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.” PeopleWayWholeProcessHollywoodCamerasMythDramaticInterpretationSuspiciousDon't Trust Author:Wayne White
“When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself. I didn't know the process, I didn't know how it worked. Now, of course, I'm more schooled on it, but I deal with so much politics in my fashion work and in Hollywood, that I haven't been as connected this time.” KnowsWorldFirstsKidsCoursesProcessDealsKnow HowFashionHavensHollywoodAskingElectionConnectedAround The WorldPresidentialCoveredAsking QuestionsSchooledPresidential Election Author:Lily Collins
“When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle class; their earning potential is rising compared to men. It has been underway for 100 years, and nothing is going to stop it. On the other hand, women are denied iconic positions of power - equity partnerships law firms, Hollywood salaries.” MenYearsLooksHas BeensTwoHandsTogetherLawProcessClassMiddlePositionMen And WomenHollywoodFirmRisingMiddle ClassDeniedPartnershipEarningEquitySalaryOne WomanIconicLiving TogetherPosition Of PowerLaw Firms Author:Stephen Marche
“Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.” KnowsProcessKnow HowToughHollywood Author:Robert Rodriguez
“Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.” WayProcessHollywoodMy WayAuditionsCheerleading Author:Sarah Shahi
“I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.” KnowsWantYearsWellsMeanPersonsMatterNextProcessActingSuccessfulHollywoodTrue PeaceMasochism Author:Emma Caulfield
“There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.” JobsCertainActorsProcessHollywoodPoolThought Process Author:Chris Klein