Studios Quotes
I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.
If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.
I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.
There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.
Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.
Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.
I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.
As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.
I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.
Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
