“The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.” WorldShouldLeaderAchieveSecurityIndustryCapacityBritishObjectivesWorld Leader Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“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 is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.” ShouldKindWholeFacesPracticeIndustryCapitalismBritish Author:William Randolph Hearst
“It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.” StillsFilmIndustryBritishStormFilm IndustryWeatheredBritish Film Author:Peter Capaldi
“I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.” KindHas BeensImportantFilmPiecesIndustryProudInvolvedBritishFilm IndustryFilm HistoryBritish Film Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!” KnowsNeedsYearsWellsTwoWantedJobsReadingStuffFieldsHugeIndustryTradeSellsPressesLeavingBritishListsSettingSettingsReleaseAgentsAgencyEditorsClientsJournalNew AgePress Release Author:Charles Stross
“Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.” CountryStoriesCultureIdentityIndustryBritishDevelopingGrandparentManufacturingKenyaGreat GrandparentsCultural Identity Author:Wangechi Mutu
“A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.” FeelsReasonFilmIndustryHollywoodCommittedBritishInfrastructureFilm IndustryBritish Film Author:Mike Leigh
“The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.” ProblemFilmIndustryBritishInsecurityLos AngelesFilm IndustryNervousnessBritish Film Author:Mike Leigh
“In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...” MadeTwoFilmOrderActorsChallengesFourIndustryLateHollywoodBritishEmploymentCelebrateBritainEmpiresLos AngelesFascismTidesThreateningFeathersDecencySuccessionColonyNazism1930sBritish EmpireAmerican MovieMovie Industry Author:Philip French
“British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.” PeopleCountryEconomyFashionSeriousIndustryBritishFashion IndustrySerious Business Author:Natalie Massenet
“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.” IfsThinkingWellsFilmBehindsSupportIndustryBritishDistributorsBritish Film Author:Noel Clarke
“McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.” MadeCreativityJourneyFashionIndustryUniqueUnderstoodExcitingMarkOriginalsForgottenSaintBritishLike MeRevolutionaryParisEstablishmentDaringAmbassadorsMcqueen Author:John Galliano
“As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.” PeopleWantOrderMoralCreativeIndustryBritishCrueltyJournalismSensationsImperativesCreative Industries Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.” MadeRecordsIndustryBritishNoiseInvasionBritish Invasion Author:Jeff Barry
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.” WarPastBuildingIndustryBiggerPlantBritishScalesShipsCivil WarEndeavorSteel80sLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.” MenShouldIndustryBritishPlatformsAssistantsCosmetics Author:Nan Goldin