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The movie business is a big gamble.
Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.
Promotion is absolutely essential in the movie business.
I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'
Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.
New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.
Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.
Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.
When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.
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 not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.
Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.
I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody.
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
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.
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.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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.
I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.
The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.
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.
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.
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 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?'
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.
Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.
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.