“There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.” StillsFilmIndustryDirectorsFemaleFilm IndustryLebanon Author:Nadine Labaki
“A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.” IfsMenTryingHeartFilmGuyIndustryCleanInstinctWho I AmEncountersFilm IndustryClean Heart Author:Kareena Kapoor
“After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.” YearsChildrenFilmActorsLeftCareersIndustryTalesFilm IndustryChild ActorsCautionary Tales Author:Lisa Jakub
“The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.” FilmYoungTalentIndustryStonesNurtureAustralianFilm IndustryStepping StonesAustralian FilmsYoung Talent Author:John Polson
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.” BookEyeFilmFormYoungCultureParentLevelsSuccessfulViolenceArmsIndustryInstinctVideoTreatmentInterfereAdolescencePowerlessTextureSchizophreniaAmbivalenceYoung Parents Author:C. Sommerville
“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
“One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.” FilmNamesIndustryProudFeaturesTomsForrest Gump Author:Leland Sklar
“When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.” TogetherFilmLawOrderFoundSocialIndustryMusicianBuiltTraditionMusicalConservativeStudiosPreservesCustomsPakistanMusic IndustryFilm And Music Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.” PeopleNeedsKindHardHomeBigsFilmMinutesStrangeIndustryPaidFilm IndustryBig Heads Author:Eric Stoltz
“The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.” PeopleMenLongDoeRunningFilmPurposeCertainSidesCan DoPossibilityHe ManJudgingIndustryIdealsInfinitePrimariesLong RunsGood And BadFilm IndustryInfinite Possibilities Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsMayRealityFilmFightingGivenVisionMillionsIndustryCostConsequenceFilm Industry Author:Cliff Martinez
“I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If visual effects (or the lack thereof) are used as a tool to strengthen an idea, they're great. If they are meant to carry more of a load in the absence of a concept, they're a waste and a distraction.” IfsThinkingIdeasFilmUsedTermDifferencesViewsEffectsIndustryWasteConceptsToolsAbsenceVisualsDistractionAdsLoadFilm IndustryVisual Effects Author:Joshua Rogers
“People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.” PeopleYearsSeemsFilmNightActorsCitiesIndustryCallingConceptsLawyerAgentsThirtyAll NightThirty YearsFilm IndustryUp All Night Author:Matthew Vaughn
“My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?” IfsHumansRealAbleJobsFilmHuman BeingsHavensIndustryHuman ExperienceFilm IndustryReal Human Author:Emily Browning
“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.” PeopleYearsEyeSchoolFilmGrowsGrowing UpFrontsIndustryDirectorsSixAcceptedFranceFilmmakerInitiativeFilm School Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.” PeopleShowsFilmOpportunityBehindsOne ThingTvsIndustryStandingGratefulEpisodesTv ShowsJumpingFilm Industry Author:Famke Janssen
“I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.” LittlesCountryAmericaFilmOpportunityBornForgetIndustryTownsGratefulIncrediblesTinyHonestlyCanadaSmall TownHere I AmFilm Industry Author:Famke Janssen
“Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.” FilmActorsPayIndustryHollywoodProtectionAliensCaliforniaIllegalSouthernElitesFourthFloodMillionaireGardenerScreenwritersCountenanceTechniciansNanniesSouthern CaliforniaIllegal Aliens Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.” CountryCareAmericaFilmNextCompanyIndustryHealth CareDocumentariesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical CompaniesDocumentary Films Author:Argus Hamilton
“I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.” YearsArtEyeSchoolFilmStudyIndustryDramaPerformingMartial ArtsFilm IndustryMuch LovePerforming Arts Author:Scott Adkins
“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
“I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.” BelieveFilmI BelieveIndustryFilm Industry Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.” ThinkingWayDifferentAgeFilmYoungWalksNumbersStageIndustryDancingPreparedDifferent WaysNervesAuditionsYoung AgeFilm Industry Author:Mia Wasikowska
“In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.” YearsEyeFilmFrontsIndustryDisappearFilmmakerFilm Industry Author:Joe Swanberg
“I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.” PeopleWantWritingI CanWould BeFilmLinesFrontsIndustryCamerasFantasticI've LearnedJust BeingFilm Industry Author:Nico Tortorella
“Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection.” AbleLastsFilmLostFashionIndustryDemandHarderCollectionsCalendarsBack AgainFilm IndustryCrank Author:Tom Ford
“I love working with other people, and I love the fact that film is a collaborative industry and form of art. You're all working with each other and playing off of each other and getting the best ideas out of everybody.” PeopleArtIdeasFactsFilmFormIndustryWorking With Others Author:Rick Heinrichs
“Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.” LooksArtFilmFunActingHonestIndustryFilm Industry Author:Shailene Woodley
“In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.” PlayFilmDesireActorsRolesIndustryHeroPerceptionExperimentsIndianCinemaMainstreamTypicalFilm IndustryLatent Author:Abhishek Bachchan
“I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes” KnowsKindDifferentCharacterStoriesTogetherFilmThreeFeltLike YouIndustryScriptsGenuineAll KindsThemeJust BeingReally GreatDifferent CharactersGreat CharacterIntertwined Author:George Tillman, Jr.
“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
“Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!” WayLooksHelpingJobsFilmUsedCompanyTechnologyImagineEventsIndustryCreatingOrganizationGreenImpactCleanProductionsExcitedOilDisasterFuelReliefZeroConstructionEfficientElectricProvidingAgricultureBreadthPositive ImpactNonprofitsOil CompaniesGeneratorCreating JobsDisaster Relief Author:Ian Somerhalder
“People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.” PeopleFilmQualityIndustryWeatherQuality Of LifeFilm IndustryGreat Qualities Author:Nick Frost
“I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.” WritingYearsFilmIndustryFinanceFilmmaking Author:Gabriel Campisi
“And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.” PeopleKindLittlesIdeasWholeFilmFallWonderfulIndustryFalling In LoveBoxesCrewFilm IndustrySmartphonesCellphone Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.” WantedFilmTelevisionIndustryFilm And Television Author:Jason Gann
“Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.” ThinkingWayMadeStoriesFilmChangedIndustryMusic IsMusic IndustryGreat FilmJagger Author:Olivia Wilde
“Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.” PlayAbleFilmLove IsCreativeTypeIndustryUniqueWake UpEverydayPotMeltingFilm IndustryMelting Pot Author:Kyle Cassie
“You have to be ready to go through peaks and valleys along the way. Be ready to sacrifice some of the things in life that are considered normal for most people for the first while. And understand the business of the film industry, because studying the art and your craft alone isn't enough anymore.” PeopleWayFirstsArtEnoughFilmStudySacrificeReadyIndustryNormalCraftsValleysThings In LifeFilm IndustryPeaks And Valleys Author:Kyle Cassie
“I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.” IfsShowsHomeFilmActorsChallengesPowerfulCareersAudienceWiseTvsIndustryPeriodsEasierSeriesTheatreStorytellingIntimateComing HomeViewersBroadwayAnd OffNetflixBroadway ShowsTractionLonger Life Author:Steven C. Harper
“The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.” FilmIssuesIndustryDirectorsDiversityFemaleGenderFashionableFilm IndustryRacial Diversity Author:Cate Blanchett
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially right now the way the film industry is. If you're a girl, the part you get to play these days...because there's so many less movies made...in a good movie, if there's a girl in it, there might be a handful of scenes, and your job is to be supportive to the guy who's messed up. Be the loving rock at home, or be the good mom, or be the attractive person.” IfsWayPersonsMadePlayCharacterHomeMightJobsFilmGuyGirlRocksMomIndustryRight NowSceneThese DaysAttractiveSupportiveThrillingHandfulInsultingBeing A WomanGood MovieFilm IndustryMessed UpGood Mom Author:Keri Russell
“California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.” FilmIndustryCaliforniaFilm IndustryMecca Author:Morris Chestnut
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingPlayFilmTelevisionIndustryAddComplicatedInevitablePurityFilm And Television Author:Zachary Quinto
“Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.” FilmStupidIndustryJokesResponsibleSaneGrainClosestCrewFilm IndustryVolcanoesDaredevilCraters Author:Werner Herzog
“I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.” YearsKindWholeFilmIndustryCoupleConversationScriptsBackgroundsFilm IndustryApprenticeshipBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it's doing something terribly wrong. But there's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansMeanLongDoeHas BeensMadeShowsRealityFilmStarsHuman BeingsTvsIndustryTrumpLong TimeEntertainmentShowersTv ShowsLong Time AgoTabloidsReality TvEntertainment IndustryDistastefulCameos Author:Joss Whedon