Studios Quotes

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

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

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.