Top 1200 Film Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

As a small business owner myself, I understand what it is like to scale up a business in the early years.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

I'm supposed to be on top of a lot of people who are past me, but their business is better than my business. It ain't the raps.

Basketball is a business to me. It's entertainment; it's a business, it's very serious.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way about a film called 'Lay the Favorite' that I made with Stephen Frears. I did that because the character was a real leap for me. The film doesn't quite all add up internally, but I feel very proud of what I did on it.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.