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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
I like considering myself as someone in the film business.
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.
I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.
The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.
There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.
My grandfather D. Ramanaidu has been in the film business for over 50 years, so I grew up in films.
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.
The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.
In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.
My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because there's so much money at stake.
I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.
Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories about us.
I'm a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I'm always terrified that I'm going to oversleep.
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
The film business talks a lot. People talk a lot. There's a lot of chatting. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes chatting. There's a lot of talking before you go and do it.
I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.
When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.
I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.
My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention.
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.
I'm the third generation of my family in the film business, and I grew up with a deep passion for movies. I made my own Super 8 films when I was a kid and always loved the editing process.
Most of the people I know in the film business here in New York, the moms and the dads, just take different turns working. So everybody's a working parent, and nobody bats an eyelash at it.
I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'