“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.” ThinkingWantAudienceRiskModelsLowsStudiosDataSomething NewWant SomethingBusiness Models Author:Gore Verbinski
“I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.” PeopleWayWantShowsMy OwnModelsIndependentEntertainmentStudiosNew Ways Author:Zachary Levi
“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.” MindUseInterestImaginationPayModelsPaintStudiosGrantedBusPencilsHail Author:Edgar Degas
“I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.” PlansModelsPaintStudiosLove MakingArrangingArranging Things Author:Gerhard Richter
“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.” PeopleThinkingDoeMadeDoneFilmThreeLove IsMillionsFourFitCostOfficeProjectsModelsDollarsBoxesStudiosMaking MoneyInvestorsTwilightFinancingBox Office Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.” WayIndustryModelsStudiosJapanOrganizeAnimationJapanese Animation Author:Takashi Murakami
“You have to strike the deals, and they have an interest in them. With a revenue share model where you're already splitting with the studios, you have to do something with Fandango and so on.” InterestDealsShareModelsStudiosStrikesRevenueSplitting Author:Gerry Lopez
“It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.” TryingYearsHelpingShowsHouseNumbersComedyModelsStudiosHopefullyFoxesBittersweetBusiness ModelsGreat BusinessNbc Author:Robert Greenblatt
“The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.” PeopleIfsWellsMillionsTypeModelsStudiosFamiliar Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomicModelsStudiosCollapseClosingEconomic Models Author:Matthew Specktor
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.” PeopleMeanArtBookCareTodayCertainPaintingHugeTasteConversationModelsLibraryStudiosMake SenseArt HistoryHistory Books Author:Kehinde Wiley
“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.” GivingCitiesTeamStreetsNew YorkFindingsModelsGive MeStudiosStrangerFilmmakerNew York CityCasualFollow MeLegitimacy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.” YearsLittlesAbleYoungBitsOughtLittle BitModelsWeightStudiosDimensionsPotArrogantClayArrivingPotteryDaily Work Author:Warren MacKenzie