“[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be.” ThinkingWayActingTrumpSittingMarkStudiosProducersExecutivesApprentice Author:Reince Priebus
“I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.” ActorsClassFrontsCamerasStudios Author:Gene Wilder
“Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.” WantedPassionFeltCareersStudiosSixteen Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.” WritingWantedCoupleStudiosFinishedCaliforniaTunesTrailsColorado Author:Neil Young
“Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.” ShouldTwoThreeRecordsFourDecidedShould HaveStudiosTrailsSession Author:Neil Young
“On my very first show, my partners in it, Oprah Winfrey and her network, and studio, Warner Horizon, who doesn't get enough credit, said, "Lady, we're going to let you call the shots the way you want to."” WayWantFirstsSaidEnoughShowsShotsStudiosCreditPartnersHorizon Author:Ava DuVernay
“I'd like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn't give him the money. Just wouldn't give him the money. Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.” GivingLittlesEnoughWantedNextTalkingDirectorsShotsStudiosBudgetsSantaSanta ClausHelicopters Author:Bill Murray
“Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show us what we were making. And the crew, cast, everyone would go into a theater there at Pinewood Studios and watch 10 minutes of what we were making. It was always so exciting. It looked amazing, and the music was huge.” DifferentShowsTogetherWatchesCuttingMinutesHugeSceneExcitingTheaterIncludingCastsStudiosCrewIncluding Everyone Author:Alan Tudyk
“The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.” WantLeftStarsCitiesNew YorkMusicalStudiosBrilliantNew York CityChoreographersMayerFosse Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.” EndsFilmColdStudiosTreatedMaking LoveFoxes1960sLove Films Author:Debbie Reynolds
“For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.” HalfSummerMajorsThirdsStudiosBudgetsLowest Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.” StepsFrontsReadyOne DayDecidedGuitarStudiosSatRecording Studio Author:Johnny Cash
“I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd listen to me, I believe you'll be glad you did. And he said, come on in. That was a good lesson for me, you know, to believe in myself.” IfsKnowsBelieveSaidI BelieveCallingLessonsMetsStudiosGladCashListen To Me Author:Johnny Cash
“I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.” DifferentTogetherSoundRecordsMusicianGuitarAlbumsStudiosExcited Author:Johnny Cash
“I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.” MomentsMy OwnStageFitLimitsStudiosGenuine Author:Nas
“If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.” PeopleIfsPlayHomeRoomsAudienceComedyFrontsTelevisionCamerasCommunicateStudiosGuidesMidnightCellars Author:John Mulaney
“Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentSongMorningRecordsWake UpStudiosStoresNineClockDifferent IdeasRecord Stores Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“Success for me is just having a job and have the studio feel confident that I can go out there and make a movie that people will enjoy.” PeopleFeelsI CanJobsEnjoyStudios Author:Mark Wahlberg
“What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period.” FeelsPeriodsInspiredStudiosFeel GoodUrban Author:Kelly Rowland
“I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.” ImportantIdeasAsksLosesRecordsStudiosRepeatsWorking It Author:Young Thug
“I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.” HomeStudiosRangeMicrophones Author:Young Thug
“I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.” ArtistMediaInvolvedStudiosFilmmaking Author:Kiki Smith
“When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.” ArtImportantInvolvedStudios Author:Kiki Smith
“I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.” WantNeedsI CanLanguageMy OwnSecurityKeysComputerBuiltCamerasStudiosBackgroundsTranslateSessionTechnicians Author:Edward Snowden
“My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.” YearsLittlesBoysEasierCreatingStudiosLittle BoysNew Music Author:Shakira
“I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.” ThinkingBigsFilmLet MeStudiosAspirationSigning Off Author:Miguel Ferrer
“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.” IfsArtPlayEasyEnjoyMy OwnCareersPlayerPaintingDependsMusicianArt IsStudiosSerenitySoloBassMayhemBass Players Author:Horace Panter
“[Maxine Waters] was kind enough to join us here at our studios in Washington, D.C., in advance of women's march in Washington in which she will be participating.” KindEnoughWaterStudiosMarchParticipating Author:Maxine Waters
“For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.” TryingWellsImportantDifferentMatterAbleActionFilmChallengesComedyChangedTvsIndustryDramaCrossesIndependentStudiosMediumsGenreDifferent ThingsPushingToesHere And ThereHindsightIndependent FilmDipDifferent GenresChallenging Myself Author:Michelle Monaghan
“All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.” WritingTodayNextStuffStudiosYesterdayTouringSeamlessOne For Me Author:Jose James
“I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.” PeopleKnowsMeanPlayKidsFunJokesPressureIndependentStudiosHaving FunDo You KnowCookers Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.” BecomingStudiosPerformingZonePerforming Live Author:Judith Hill
“It's dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.” KnowsWritingDifferentPlaySongHoursTrainingStudiosSpendingCraftsGet BetterChordsLearning How To Write Author:Bruno Mars
“If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.” IfsKnowsKindBigsWould BeFilmFeltWorryDirectMy FamilyStudiosSecureHopefullyIf I Could Author:Dave Bautista
“We were really fortunate to work [on Pineapple Express] with a studio that was really supportive of these guys. It was before Superbad and Knocked Up had even come out, but everyone just felt really great about them and the energy surrounding Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] and Judd [Apatow] - all of these guys - and the idea of getting Franco back into comedy as well.” WellsIdeasGuyEnergyFeltComedyStudiosFortunateReally GreatSupportiveFrancoPineapplesKnocked Up Author:Seth Rogen
“In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.” StatesPlayFilmOpportunityDifficultIndependentStudiosIndependent Film Author:John Hurt
“I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.” WayUseWantedUsedRecordsConservativeAlbumsStudiosSpeedFranceNorway Author:Varg Vikernes
“At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that kind of stuff.” PeopleWorldKindSpeakSocialStuffPresidentInvolvedOrganizationStudiosOne TimeChaptersBostonSocial LifeCambridgeFuture Society Author:Paul Laffoley
“You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There's a hope for a quick fix - if only we have the money and right drugs for it.” IfsSelfPartyDrugMassEnlightenmentYogaEmpowermentStudiosQuantityRetreatCeremonySelf EmpowermentEcstaticDjsShamanismSeminarsAyahuascaQuick FixesDance Party Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh in and you have to listen to all of them because they hired you. With TV, it's a way smaller scale, with only a few people weighing in.” PeopleWayTvsWeightStudiosHeavyScalesProducersKitchenChefWeighingHeavy Weights Author:Neal Brennan
“At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.” IfsChangedSummerStudiosReleaseHotelAdaptationHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Rob Lowe
“Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ].” HeartFilmGamesAbsolutesStudiosMagazinesLegendsOutsidersApocalypseTime Magazine Author:Rob Lowe
“I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.” BigsWould BeNew YorkTheaterStudiosWoodsBackgroundsTeaApartmentBeardLiving AloneFutons Author:Stephen Colbert
“My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are able to look back at what you created when you finish. Recording music is an entirely different monster. When you finally write something, you do a demo and then you go into the studio. Doing the master version, that's the best feeling ever - especially when you're so proud of what you've written, and you can't wait for people to hear it. That's actually very similar to trying to tell a story in a wrestling match.” PeopleWorldWritingTryingLooksDifferentStoriesFeelingsAbleWaitingWrittenPaintingMastersProudMusic IsStudiosMonstersVersionsPeacefulWrestlingPeaceful WorldDemosRecording Music Author:Jeff Hardy
“I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.” FilmScriptsStudiosFinishedShootingWrestling Author:John Ratzenberger
“I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things - and I say this because I've been given a lot of bilingual movies in the past because of my career in Mexico, and they're like, "Oh, it's going to make sense for her to do this." A lot of studios want to hit that demographic, but they sort of do it without starting in the right way, which is having someone who knows the culture, and enjoys the language as well, to be able to write these things.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantWritingWellsEnoughAblePastCultureOpportunityLanguageGivenEasyEnjoyCareersTasksStartingStudiosMake SenseMexicoRight WayLatinoDemographicsEasy TasksGiven Opportunity Author:Karla Souza
“The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.” PeopleIfsSpeakDifficultVoiceTalkingFansPersonalitySkillsMessagesRadioStudiosStadiumsJockeysDiskVendors Author:Charlie Brotman
“That's one of the things I haven't had time for in my personal life, is art, and I probably should make more time for it. I also don't have space where I'm living right now to set up a studio, but I'm sure at some point, I will.” ShouldArtLife IsSpaceHavensRight NowStudiosMore TimePersonal LifeLiving RightLiving Right Now Author:Michael Graziadei
“I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.” ThinkingStoriesTogetherStuffColorStudiosActressesOptimisticSlimOlder Women Author:Susan Sarandon
“I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsLooksImportantWantedSuccessfulLike YouStudiosMy WayComes And GoesStay TrueTrue To Myself Author:Ginuwine