“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTryingArtUseAbleSimplePowerfulEffectsPaintingFineIndustryDirectAlbumsEntertainmentBunchShirtsT ShirtUsefulnessFine ArtsEntertainment IndustryLogosReally PowerfulAlbum Covers Author:Andrew W.K.
“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveLongHardChristianFilmFoundBlackCommunityReligiousMillionsGroupsFineIndustryJewReleaseExecutivesOffensiveHomosexualAmerican IndianAffinityPortrayingBlack CommunityBenefactorsDandyMovie IndustryMogulsDisparagingAdolph Hitler Author:Donald Wildmon
“The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?” IfsGivingChildrenWould BeWaterEconomyAirShareFineIndustryPoliticianAssumingEnvironmentalForestsSoilBuyingMinoritiesRealisticSustainabilityCaptainsEcosystemsSeducingPoisoningDegradingErosionEquitableAir And WaterWatershedsSoil ErosionCaptains Of Industry Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
“I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.” PeopleKnowsWorldMeanWholeHelpingFilmEnjoyDifficultSidesMy OwnFineIndustryElementsRestaurantsSeatsVillage Author:Jeremy Irons
“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.” PeopleThinkingKnowsInspirationalWritingArtMatterDoneHateOrderLiteratureTechnologySubjectsFieldsFineIndustryNeededProveMachinesOppositesSightComplexesLinkedQualifiedSpecialistsSynthesisCraftsmanshipDilettantes Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.” KnowsHas BeensCountryQualityDoubtTeachingFineIndustryWineOur CountryHelpfulFine WineConsultation Author:Robert Mondavi
“There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.” ThinkingYearsLittlesPlanetsFineIndustryThreatHeavyBillionsEngagedGoing AwayVersusConceit Author:George Carlin
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeSaidRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementFineIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialAppearanceCreditCollapseFreezeViewpointsBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Richard Posner
“I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.” IfsThinkingTryingDifferentRealWould BeWantedLyingFineIndustryOne DayEuropeHollywoodMaking MoneyFilmmakerExpensiveFilmmaking Author:Baran Odar