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“I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.”

Feels Bigs Would Be Film Studios Indie Films

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.”

Ifs Pay Studios

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.”

Sometimes Studios Groove

Author:Billy Sherwood

“I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.”

Thinking Studios Compare

Author:Paul Simon

“I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.”

Song Originals Simplicity Studios Recording Studio Original Music Recording Music

Author:Grace Slick

“Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.”

Home Havens Studios Makeup Vocal

Author:Robert Smith

“I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.”

Mean Done Values Television Right Now Resources Starting Productions Studios Screens Storytelling Being Done

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.”

Thinking Film Studios Scary Driven

Author:Kevin Spacey

“But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.”

Feels Believe I Can Helping Stories Film I Believe Responsibility Relation Studios I Believe In

Author:Kevin Spacey

“To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.”

Book Wanted Film Literature Honest Hollywood Blessed Studios Adapted

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.”

Faces Black White Audience Fronts Fairs Balls Theater Studios Bars Policemen Supermarkets Fireman All Black Recording Studio Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Believe Shows Certain Song I Believe Records Authority Albums Studios Formal

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.”

Believe Film Green Marketing Studios Department Lit

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.”

Knows Years Brain Fantasy Decided Studios Finished Touring

Author:Ringo Starr

“The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.”

Shows Stars Studios Ships Contracts

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.”

Thinking Ideas Character Might Happens Waiting Term Challenges Worry Approach Lifetime Studios Genre Sci Fi Paradigm Paradigm Shift Forward Thinking

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.”

Feels Hate Actors Terrible I Hate Studios Wigs

Author:Elaine Stritch

“Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.”

Writing Together Happened Studios Back Together Getting Back Together

Author:Taylor Swift

“I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.”

Knows Stuff My Own Five Four Rocks Hundred Jazz Track Studios Metals Polka

Author:Serj Tankian

“I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.”

Home Film Guy Next Fun Records Studios Hanging Out Barns

Author:James Taylor

“The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.”

Way Film Technology Independent Size Studios Angle Independent Film Gadgets Different Angles

Author:Juno Temple

“I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.”

Years Stuff Son Studios Killers Covering Blackouts Studio 54

Author:John Tesh

“For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.”

Years Judgment Studios

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.”

Bigs Running Five Four Hollywood Structure Studios

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.”

Studios Boundaries No Boundaries

Author:Justin Timberlake

“I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.”

Records Plans Studios Paris Rolling Dutch Recording Studio Barges

Author:Pete Townshend

“I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.”

Want Feels Writing Kind I Can Character Song Stage Singing Studios Video Shooting Writing Songs Singing Songs

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Character Fiction Materials Tvs Independent Studios Driven Theatre Partners Developing Diverse Cables Non Fiction Amy Slate Producing Movies

Author:Meredith Vieira

“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.”

Years Form Song Three Left Gone Minutes Periods Musician Years Ago Moved Studios Connected Bubbles Rock N Roll Time Travel

Author:Tom Waits

“I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.”

Thinking Important Stories Shows Film Interesting Audience Studios Really Interesting Indie Films

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.”

Needs Products Amount Studios Screens Filling

Author:Orson Welles

“If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.”

Ifs Giving Trying Mean Long Use Treats Give Me Studios Editing

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

“Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.”

People Way Want Acting Studios Womanly

Author:Kristen Wiig

“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.”

Ifs Needs Dream Age Wanted Used Song Turns Records Needed Aging Studios Excited Producers Used To Be Birthday Digital Gaps Doing You Laptops Digital Age 50th Birthday Turn Me Dreaming And Doing

Author:Bono

“It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.”

Want Stills Poor Rooms Morning Band Wake Up Privilege Studios Noble Servant Melody Rehearsal

Author:Bono

“The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.”

Ifs Trying Steps Studios Employment Friendly Deficit

Author:Dick Wolf

“I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”

People Fields Studios Wander Invites Cellars Attics

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.”

Ifs Love Grows Study Color Mad Studios Corn Corny Stalking True Colors

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.”

Song Studios Youtube Parody

Author:Al Yankovic

“Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.”

Play Clubs Studios Halls Truck Rehearsal Garage Basements

Author:Neil Young

“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”

Beautiful Wish Born Work Dancing Studios Eras Pants Genes Going To Work Sunglasses Scarves

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.”

Ends Film Young Sides Millions Pieces Kings Directors Intellectual Property Studios Meat Controlled Climbing Coming Out Garbage Burgers Intellectual Property Generic Grinder Burger King

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.”

Thinking Made Two Real Done Facts Proud Albums Studios My Time

Author:David Bowie

“Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.”

Knows Want Kind Film Pressure Studios

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.”

Country America Film Space Shots India Clean Studios London Obsession Indian Switzerland

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.”

Needs Bigs Purpose Studios Managers Organisation

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.”

Pleasure Dance Studios Dancer Choreography Draining

Author:Alvin Ailey

“We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.”

Stills Time Creative Studios Fund More Time Chasing Creative Work

Author:Alvin Ailey

“A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.”

Bigs Film Fun Studios Versions Formulas

Author:Malin Akerman

“The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.”

Brain Members Presses Studios Restaurants Department Wiser Soup Motion Pictures

Book:A Wodehouse Bestiary

Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary

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