“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.” IfsPersonsMotherHoursEconomyFlowerMomLessonsYogaRaisesStudiosPianoRestaurantsThriveGymGoing OutMinimumEarningSmall BusinessMothers DayMinimum WagePiano Lesson Author:Nick Hanauer
“Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.” ShowsTeamFansTvsDecidedStudiosStormLocalsSoccerCriticizeNervesHostTurkish Author:Tucker Carlson
“Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.” KnowsLooksLittlesBitsEnvironmentPaintingLittle BitRedBlueAddStudiosControlled Author:Zakk Wylde
“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.” WayWritingDifferentEndsSelfPlayCharacterActorsProcessActingBehindsVisionProduceBalanceExerciseDirectorsInstrumentsStudiosActressesIntenseMediumsReliefThe End Of The DaySelf IndulgentActors And Actresses Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.” WritingIdeasLastsSongProcessMinutesFlowStudiosBreathe Author:Alan Cohen
“I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.” TryingSongSoundPiecesEffectsWallApproachBallsInstrumentsStudiosEquipmentEmulateChannelingPlugsCrankKnobs Author:Alan Cohen
“Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.” KnowsWantMadeSelfRunningFilmStudiosExecutivesCensoringGauntlet Author:Terry Gilliam
“I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.” WantStageFlowStudiosThread Author:Damien Rice
“I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.” PeopleFilmGoneStudios Author:Tilda Swinton
“It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don't think Gloria looks that much like me.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksDifferentCharacterRememberFacesFunSawsFirst TimeStudiosLike MeCuteIntimateExquisiteElijahEndearingGloria Author:Brittany Murphy
“When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'” LooksUsedAsksSoldierStudiosGerman SoldiersGuernica Author:Pablo Picasso
“I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual.” MenGivingShouldArtFilmIndividualAcceptingEnemyDirectorsMajorsStudiosDamnOne ManCommitteesExtensions Author:Frank Capra
“Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.” StageUniversalStudiosCorporateExpensiveUniversal Studios Author:Stephen Sondheim
“A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.” PeopleYearsArtImportantMatterAbleWantedArtistFeltStreetsFineSurvivalDecidedStudiosCashFine ArtsStreet Art Author:Shepard Fairey
“One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it."” KnowsWayWantSaidRoomsProduceHollywoodStudios Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.” PeopleThinkingWholeFilmChoicesAudienceArmsHarderIndependentCompetitionObviousStudiosVideoCrushDigitalDistributionExplosionsIndependent FilmDistributors Author:Steve Buscemi
“It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.” PeopleArtEndsCareAbleArtistSimpleSupportWonderfulInvolvedMy FamilyStudiosTake CareThe End Of The DayLots Of MoneyFacility Author:Jeff Koons
“The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.” LittlesSometimesHappensBitsCreativeMagicLittle BitInspiredStudiosJuice Author:Donna Karan
“In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.” PeopleWayHomeCertainOrderTechnologyProjectsDemocraticStudiosInvestorsAnimation Author:Raul Garcia
“Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.” WantProjectsToughIndependenceStudiosFeaturesZeroNew Projects Author:Raul Garcia
“I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.” BigsFilmPlayerParticularPlanetsPersonalityIndustryReturnMajorsInvestmentIndividualityStudiosMaking MoneyAppealsFormulasCommitteesFilm IndustryStrippingStripping Away Author:Signe Baumane
“I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.” FeelsLooksCreativeObjectsProjectsBasesGlassesStudiosTinyTeaKitchenImprovisationJarsSample Author:Signe Baumane
“I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.” PeopleWantLittlesSometimesBigsFilmTvsDirectStudios Author:Jen McGowan
“I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up.” GivingRolesCreatingOriginalsStudiosAvailableOnlineYoutubeJust Do It Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston
“I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.” PaintingStudiosOilPainterOil Painting Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.” MenFeelsHappensEyeWalksPowerfulEnvironmentStreetsEffectsPaintingCoupleBedStudiosOilStuckGalleryHarassmentOffendersOil PaintingStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.” WaySometimesHomeSeemsInfluenceMusicianDrawsJazzMusicalStudiosPrimariesCapturePeterGuitaristPlaygroundsVersatileRecording StudioWellspringBrazilian Music Author:Andrew S. Gilbert
“Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.” StageBuildingOfficeBuiltBoxesStudiosIncomePoisonBricksBox OfficeMayer Author:Joan Crawford
“While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.” WayHeartSoulHomeLyingNightFoundDarkSleepMorningImpossibleMy HeartBedStudiosPossessedContemplatingHeart And SoulBack HomeWay Back Home Author:Joan Crawford
“For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.” WantHumansI CanWould BeFilmHuman BeingsLevelsDangerousHugeStudios Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable” KindDifficultBoysCapableStudios Author:Jane Campion
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan
“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.” FirstsPlayWantedFoundDadOne DayGuitarMy DadStudiosLabelsSession Author:Shuggie Otis
“As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.” PeopleTryingBelieveSellsStudiosFantastic Author:Neil Drumming
“Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.” TryingBigsFilmOpportunityDealsHugeIndependentStudiosBudgetsGreat OpportunityIndependent FilmIndie Films Author:Aml Ameen
“Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.” FieldsStudiosIceCrucialPortraitsSymphonyGeographyAcousticsAntarctica Author:DJ Spooky
“Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.” BigsHoursBehindsTrainStudiosFishingHuntingYardsComing Back Author:William T. Vollmann
“TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.” WellsSaidDifferentHomeAnimalAudienceFiveMinutesTvsDown AndCamerasClubsStudiosRhythmMusclesViewersConnectingFive MinutesDifferent Animals Author:Ted Alexandro
“I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.” PeopleThinkingCultureResultsComfortablePropertyStudiosCaringExecutivesFillingTemperature Author:Wesley Morris
“There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.” NeedsBelieveArtHouseQualityStudiosStoresCraftsMake SenseAshamedShopsSelectMundane Author:Laura Owens
“I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.” IfsAbleWillingReadyBandStudios Author:Cass McCombs
“For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.” WantLongHomeFilmReturnLong TimeLowsInvestmentStudiosVideoHome Videos Author:Charles Roven
“All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesBigsSongSoundFivePiecesAlbumsStudiosCombinationTapeSkeletonsAmplifiers Author:Robby Krieger
“I just went into the studio and did it all in one take. All I was thinking about was the next record; I had already sourced the tracks I wanted to use. I'd been thinking a lot about it and I wanted to represent myself, Leeds and fabric. I'm not very nationalistic, but I wanted to represent what was coming out of Britain as well as at the moment there's a lot of really good new music.” ThinkingWellsMomentsUseWantedNextRecordsTrackStudiosBritainComing OutFabricNew MusicNationalisticLeeds Author:Ralph Lawson
“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.” YearsFilmDevelopmentHollywoodAverageStudiosNineAbstractNine YearsHollywood Movies Author:Stephen Gaghan
“It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.” IfsKnowsLittlesBitsProcessSecretLittle BitStudiosSigningInfuriatingSigning Up Author:Doug Liman
“I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.” ScaredStudiosPosterity Author:Doug Liman
“The beating heart of your story that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.” PeopleHeartStoriesShowsStuffStudiosSeatsTrailers Author:Doug Liman