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The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

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.

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

I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have that off thing about them. Their whole presence is just a little innocent, I think.

The movie business is a big gamble.

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.

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

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.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

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

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

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.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

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.

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.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

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

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

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.

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.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

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

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.

When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

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.

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

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.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

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.

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.

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

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.