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Source: Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.”

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Author:Robert Ben Garant

“Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.”

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Author:Robert Ben Garant

“If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?”

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Author:Carole Katchen

“I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.”

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Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee

“There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.”

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Author:Toby Keith

“That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.”

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Author:DJ Qualls

“I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.”

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Author:John Cena

“Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.”

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Author:Wallace Shawn

“My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.”

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Author:David Guetta

“It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.”

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Author:David Guetta

“I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.”

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Author:Aretha Franklin

“I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

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Author:Walter Huston

“If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.”

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Author:Robert Stack

“The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.”

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Author:Brian J. White

“I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”

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Author:Peter Doig

“I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.”

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Author:Peter Doig

“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

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Author:Peter Doig

“You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.”

People Writing Like You Studios Composition

Author:Chuck Berry

“I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.”

Hands Studios All Time Just Being

Author:Ariana Grande

“At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.”

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Author:Christine Lakin

“Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.”

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Author:Conleth Hill

“"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."”

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Author:John Lennon

“We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”

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Book:Valparaiso

Source: Valparaiso

“Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.”

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Author:Valerie June

“There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.”

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Author:Gerhard Richter

“When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.”

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Author:Sammy Hagar

“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"”

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Author:Anthony Heald

“It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.”

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Author:Roland Emmerich

“I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.”

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Author:Jimmy Cliff

“When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.”

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Author:Scott Weiland

“Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!”

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Author:Angie Martinez

“I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at the response it gets when we perform it live every night. My son Ryan is a really talented filmmaker so I always enjoy working with him on a project. But what made this project even more special was that 3 of my own grandkids were in the video. This video was a lot of fun to make. I hope people enjoy it!”

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Author:Michael W. Smith

“I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.”

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Author:Stephen Stills

“We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.”

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Author:Jonathan Ive

“When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'”

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Author:T-Pain

“I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.”

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Author:June Squibb

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