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“Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.”

“I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.”

Two Actors Gone Mines Friends Studios California Two Friends

Author:Richard Widmark

“I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.”

Young Morning Magic Studios Dawn Every Morning

Author:Natalie Wood

“So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!”

Causes Morning Goes On Band Studios Clock

Author:Billy Sherwood

“I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.”

Writing Listening Discipline Walking Sitting Studios Beach Melody Domain Humming

Author:Enya

“Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.”

Mind Guy Certain Rooms Type Discipline Sitting Okay Studios Composing Mind Set Great Gifts

Author:James Young

“I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.”

Knows Remember Artist Levels Optimism Fundamentals Studios Driving Walt

Author:John Hench

“I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”

Feels Success Fun Records Radio Studios Having Fun Allusion

Author:Matthew Sweet

“I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Facts Together Time Bits Band Albums Studios Miserable Good Times Tape Pulling Having A Good Time

Author:Roy Wood

“I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.”

Thinking Wells Purpose Work Needed Series Ill Studios

Author:Fay Wray

“When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.”

Years Care Actors Majors Years Ago Studios Crafts Grooming Personal Grooming

Author:James MacArthur

“In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.”

Play Bigs Roles Particular Studios Contracts Grooming Personal Grooming

Author:Robert Wagner

“We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.”

Dream Song Studios Mentor Dreams Come True Icons Whitney

Author:Deborah Cox

“Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?”

Knows Men Feels Mean Together Projects Female Studios Honestly Nasty

Author:Mike Epps

“When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.”

Young Protect Starting Studios Actresses Lawyer Agents Host Sharks Starting Out Publicists

Author:Francesca Annis

“My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.”

Used House Dad My Dad Studios Uncles

Author:Lil Romeo

“There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.”

People Want Two Reason Might Wanted Artist Movement Areas Sells Moved Studios Practicals More Money Venice

Author:Roger Corman

“I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.”

Studios Lifestyle Apartment Extravagant

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.”

Done Felt Mines Studios Finished Evening Canvas Cooperative Learning

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”

Ifs Film Father Beats Hollywood Tables Studios Crafts Girlfriend My Girlfriend Hollywood Studios

Author:Noah Wyle

“Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.”

Knows Want Mean Enough Character Happens Action Film Next Stars Audience Studios Driven Crafts Spite Plot Executives Stink

Author:David Mamet

“. . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre.”

“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.”

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Author:Stanley Tucci

“I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.”

Has Beens Done Inspiration Night Conditions Shots Studios Controlled Lighting

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.”

World Writing Heart Winning Pleasure Remains Profound Studios Enterprise All Alone True Heart

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.”

Ifs Kind Able Opportunity Lost Ocean Studios Playing Music

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.”

Want Years Play Age Waiting Interesting Cutting Ten Tough Decided Studios Executives Patches Old Lady

Author:Tyne Daly

“I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.”

Has Beens Studios Keystones

Author:Sally Phillips

“At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.”

Two Studios Saving Burning Chests Electric Wire Spectators Venice Doorways Boardwalks

Book:Chris Burden, February 18, 1976

Source: Chris Burden, February 18, 1976

“The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.”

“I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.”

Want Half Months Studios

Author:Mark Hoppus

“The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.”

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Book:Andy Warhol's exposures

Source: Andy Warhol's exposures

“And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.”

Cutting Studios Bullied Good Relationship

Author:Ridley Scott

“I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.”

Home Used Studios Heroin

Author:Damon Albarn

“I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.”

Thinking Kind Song Realizing Studios

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.”

Knows Running Magic Singing Track Studios Singers Sellers

Author:Ahmet Ertegun

“Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.”

Beautiful Rooms Singing Studios Engineers Machinery Ambience

Author:Patty Griffin

“I love the magic of the studio.”

Magic Studios

Author:Graham Coxon

“I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.”

People Powerful Tears Moved Studios

Author:Richard MacDonald

“At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.”

Pieces Studios Driven One Time

Author:Richard MacDonald

“The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.”

Firsts Hard Bits Media Cry First Time Mad Studios Release Lungs Exposure

Author:Florence Welch

“Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.”

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Author:Bernie Brillstein

“I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.”

Trying Chance Track Studios Producers Always Trying

Author:Skrillex

“For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.”

Needs Jobs One Thing Studios Mood Chores

Author:John Frusciante

“If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.”

Ifs Thinking Roots Independent Studios Producers Executives

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.”

Writing Trying Artist Industry My Favorite Studios Music Industry

Author:Jesse McCartney

“Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.”

Stills Self Form Steps Amount Studios Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Ben Harper

“My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.”

Ideas Studios

Author:Akon

“I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

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