“There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"” MenGivingFeelsIdeasGuyWalksUniversalDareStudiosHeyOscarsStripes Author:Benicio Del Toro
“Having done quite a bit with studios and networks, I thought if I'm going to do something new and unformed, it would be fun to do it in a completely new space and place. The space being the Internet and the place being Crackle.” IfsDoneWould BeFunBitsSpaceInternetStudiosSomething New Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.” FirstsCuttingStudios Author:Joe Wright
“Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchback. You know how people can be, giving him a hard time. So he turned that into a defensive mechanism. He would strike first, a lot of times. But he was a great guy, and really those talks we had when I was about 15, out of all of that came the studio over the drugstore and everything else. I'm not saying - I'm no big deal, but I was a part of the birth of the music there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsHardCharacterBigsGuyDealsAttitudeKnow HowBirthStudiosStrikesBrilliantOddHard TimesMechanismTomsBig DealGreat Guy Author:Donnie Fritts
“I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.” WritingGuyNextCompanyBuildingBottomStudiosPublishingNashvilleOld Buildings Author:Donnie Fritts
“The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.” FilmProfitProductionsStudiosExpensiveExpensesFewerFilmmakingPromotionHype Author:William Friedkin
“When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.” WantPersonsLevelsCreativePassionateStudiosTentsSingle Person Author:William Friedkin
“I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.” ArtMadeReasonStoriesFeelingsTodayWantedBeautifulFilmFormAudienceComputerUnderstoodStudiosMediumsReason WhyNever QuitAnimationSpectacularWaltComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.” ThinkingWorldArtWantedFilmFormFeltWatchesAudienceWonderfulComputerUnderstoodStudiosMediumsAround The WorldCinemaEntertainingAnimationGood MovieReally Good MovieComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.” NeedsDoneShowsStuffActingTvsKeysLowsPressesStudiosHittingTv ShowsGoing To WorkLow Key Author:Bryan Greenberg
“I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentCountryShowsFunLove IsFansStageSingingWho You ArePassionateStudiosHearingAround The WorldPerformingAdoreEvery SecondDifferent CountriesWay I Love You Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.” PeopleWantKindMeanBrotherStudiosBoardsHatsEnthusiasticParamountEnsembleHats OffWarner Brothers Author:David Fincher
“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.” PeopleLooksKindTwoStoriesSuccessfulPiecesExampleDifficultyResponseStudiosEightLowestSlow MotionLowest Point Author:David Fincher
“The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.” WritingBelieveMadeFilmUsedSongI BelieveChallengesCuttingDirectorsFinalsLeavingStudiosEmploymentMakersInitialsSelectWaltAnimator Author:Richard Sherman
“I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.” FeelsMindKindEnoughFilmCertainChoicesLeftLosesChallengesLinesMorningLike YouAmountExerciseSceneIncrediblesStudiosHopefullyFeedingStaminaGood Choices Author:Glenn Close
“Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.” LittlesSometimesHardDifferencesInterestingIndependentStudiosFilmmakingSatellitesIndependent Filmmaking Author:Kerry Washington
“I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.” ThinkingWantBelieveWellsLongIdeasSeemsTalkingAudienceRootsTestsMeetingsStudiosActressesDishesSympathetic Author:Kristen Stewart
“Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.” UsedActorsPaidInvestmentStudiosContractsCommodityLiteral Author:Ben Affleck
“I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.” ThinkingBigsActorsTermChallengesLevelsStudiosBudgetsBig Challenges Author:Famke Janssen
“I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.” ThinkingWantStillsHardActionActorsDifficultStudiosOver YouProven Author:Jet Li
“I don't care if people perceive me as always selling out because I'm doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that's the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.” PeopleIfsShouldWholeCareAbleChoicesActorsStudiosDon't CareSellingI Don't CarePerceiveDiverseSelling Out Author:Cillian Murphy
“Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.” IfsWantKindPersonsSometimesReasonMightWantedGuyNextActorsHurtWorryCastsStudiosAll KindsReason WhyTallToo ShortBrunetteLeading Ladies Author:Bruce Campbell
“One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.” PeopleWorldWayKindMightFilmGuyActorsRealizingFateStudiosOne WayBrokeDecentOwnersLots Of MoneySmarterMovie Business Author:Steven Conrad
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.” ResourcesBiggerStudiosSensesPromotion Author:Cheech Marin
“The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.” FilmInterestStudiosLegacyClassicClassic Films Author:William Friedkin
“Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.” WantGirlCan DoStudios Author:Rashida Jones
“Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.” BelieveGuyProcessStudios Author:Balthazar Getty
“You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenHas BeensMadeDifferentFactsFilmInterestingIndependentStudiosLabelsFundAppreciatedIndependent FilmFinancing Author:Edward Norton
“I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.” IfsKindI CanArtistSunFourStudiosCoffeeExperimentsTeethGet UpGet AwayBrushesBarns Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.” IfsNeedsHelpingHomeTogetherGuySongMy OwnProjectsStudiosDevelopingHelp MeNutsCounterparts Author:Andrew Bird
“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.” WorldCountryTermFiguresMastersOfficeHollywoodBoxesStudiosFranceCinemaAnimationBox OfficeSmall CountriesHollywood StudiosSavoir Faire Author:Michel Ocelot
“You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.” EnoughSongRecordsExpectationsStudiosGood Enough Author:Andrew Bird
“Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.” MadeStudiosVacationLots Of Money Author:Chevy Chase
“Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.” PeopleReadingTermLevelsTvsDirectorsStudiosProducersMultipleCastingCasting Directors Author:Andre Holland
“It's a completely independent atelier and company. We develop the prototypes here. There's a pattern maker, a sample maker, a commercial team, a head of sales, an in-house production team. That's the price of independence. And in the studio I work closely with Sarah-Linh on the collection, and Nao takes care of development.” CareHouseCompanyTeamDevelopmentIndependentIndependencePatternsProductionsStudiosTake CareCollectionsMakersSamplePrototype Author:Christophe Lemaitre
“I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.” YearsKindIdeasWantedHalfFrontsAlbumsStudiosBeachNo IdeaTrailers Author:Lenny Kravitz
“It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.” SchoolFeltWalksHigh SchoolStudiosTemplesMotivatedRatsWombRecording StudioMagical Places Author:Lenny Kravitz
“At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.” PeopleWayFeelsMeanHappensSpeakFeltMorningNegativeStudiosFeel GoodMessClock Author:Lenny Kravitz
“If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.” IfsKnowsWantStillsImportantWholeBehindsPlayerListeningGrewGrew UpNotesGuitarTrackAlbumsStudiosProducersBuyingJapanListening To MusicDrummerGuitar PlayerVinyl Author:Lenny Kravitz
“When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsSaidWonderHappenedStudiosSpeakersGreat Music Author:Jay-Z
“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
“People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.” PeopleWantBelieveStrongI BelieveArmsHappeningsStudiosStoresApplesPiracyItunesStrong ArmsMp3 Author:Charles Stross
“The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.” LooksUseWorkersStudiosFactoriesJewelryLeatherVestsFactory Workers Author:Pamela Love
“If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.” PeopleIfsFilmSituationComfortableIndependentStudiosCinemaEither Or Author:Spike Lee
“I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don't necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.” ThinkingBigsFilmDecisionHellStudiosMore Money Author:Keira Knightley
“What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."” WantGirlMinesTypeDirectorsStudiosFrustratingGreat FriendType Of Girl Author:Eva Mendes
“There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.” MeanFilmTermGroupsIndependentDefinitionsStudiosFilmmakingLiteralIndependent Filmmaking Author:Andrew Neel
“I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then you should try to get a studio budget so that you can use all of the tools they have to get what you want. If it doesn't then you look elsewhere, or make it yourself.” IfsWantShouldTryingLooksDoeUseConceptsToolsIndependentStudiosWhat You WantBudgetsFilmmakerElsewhere Author:Andrew Neel
“For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRealStoriesFilmMovingVoiceBecomingStudiosNarrativeFilmmakerLatinoRefreshing Author:Aurora Guerrero