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The movie business is a big gamble. -- Jackie Chan
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy. -- Javier Bardem
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you. -- Graydon Carter
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. -- George Lucas
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. -- Jeremy Renner
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. -- Christopher Atkins
I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business. -- Linda Fiorentino
Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns. -- John Carpenter
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. -- Michael Medved
Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture. -- Robert Evans
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. -- Walt Disney
See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business. -- Chuck Zito
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know. -- Tony Curtis
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. -- Michael Eisner
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business. -- Brett Ratner
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. -- Leos Carax
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. -- Bill Condon
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. -- Dean Devlin
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever. -- Joel Silver
I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them. -- Jack Nicholson
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. -- Michael Medved
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it. -- Lisa See
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. -- Adam Duritz
I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?' -- Jake Gyllenhaal
My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole. -- Michelle Yeoh
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. -- Michael Douglas
As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors. -- Matt Damon
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. -- Jeremy Renner
Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors. -- Martin Kove
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business. -- John Perry Barlow
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. -- Paula Wagner
I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that. -- Freddie Highmore
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection. -- Denise Di Novi
I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier. -- Wes Anderson
The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me. -- Stephen Gaghan
The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that. -- Marjane Satrapi
I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out. -- Francis Lawrence
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. -- David Crosby
Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business. -- Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. -- Bob Iger
I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal. -- Jaleel White
I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star. -- Glenn Close
If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers. -- Sean Penn
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date. -- Wayne Rogers
I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general. -- Matthew Specktor
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business. -- Lea Thompson
Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs. -- Lynda Obst
That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people. -- Jack Nicholson
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. -- Matthew Specktor
with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? -- Lynda Obst
The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies. -- Daniel Craig
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich. -- Lynda Obst
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me. -- Sam J. Jones
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. -- Bill Forsyth
When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not. -- Henry Blodget
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff." -- Ben Affleck
Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that. -- Julie Delpy
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work. -- Viggo Mortensen
A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am. -- Andre Holland
I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. -- Ron Perlman
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business. -- Bob Iger
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. -- Julianne Moore
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain. -- Jeremy Thomas
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed. -- David Mamet
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst. -- Judy Holliday
I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business. -- Harvey Weinstein
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business. -- Jay Chandrasekhar
Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know. -- Jackie Chan
Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen. -- Anthony Mackie
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started. -- Richard Masur
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do. -- Brian Dennehy
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. -- Francis Ford Coppola
You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business. -- Natalie Portman
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers. -- Lynda Obst
I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast. -- Stan Lee
Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers. -- Ronnie Apteker
There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch. -- Oliver Reed
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government. -- Alfonso Cuaron
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. -- John Frankenheimer
Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd. -- Henry Blodget

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