Top 1200 Movie Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

Basically, we [me and Evan Goldberg] started thinking about making a movie that was kind of a weed movie and action movie and had a real kind of friendship story to it, then that would be our favorite movie [Pineapple Express] ever.

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Promotion is absolutely essential in the movie business.

The Rock now the hottest thing. He come from wrestling background. Father, mother, grandfather all from wrestling business: 2-3 generations. I watch his movie. He great movie star, and I be wrestling with his father Rocky Johnson. I love them.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

For me, movie making is not business.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.