Distributor Quotes

#1. The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.

Mitch Lasky

#2. To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Arthur Cohn

#3. In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].

Emmanuelle Bercot

#4. Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Francis Ford Coppola

#5. Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#6. An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jonathan Galassi

#7. People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

Joan Blades

#8. I mean that a party can't be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.

Elena Ferrante

#9. Friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

C.E. Murphy

#10. Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

Eli Roth

#11. Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

Alex Gibney

#12. It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

Wim Wenders

#13. It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

John Hurt

#14. Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.

Ira Sachs

#15. I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.

Roy Ayers

#16. A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.

Michael Angarano

#17. Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

Tucker Max

#18. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Burt Ward

#19. In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

Dave Reichert

#20. Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

Ajay Devgan

#21. Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Brian O'Driscoll

#22. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#23. Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

Viggo Mortensen

#24. Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

Adam McKay

#25. The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.

Willem Dafoe

#26. I have no distributor ... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

Bill Dixon

#27. Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.

Mark Shurtleff

#28. When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

Anita Ekberg

#29. When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

Michel Hazanavicius

#30. When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Martin Villeneuve

#31. One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.

Jamie Hyneman

#32. If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Bill Ackman

#33. When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

Drew Barrymore

#34. The pillow entrepreneur, who knew the true nature of the distributor, thought that it might take longer than that.

Jonas Jonasson

#35. Saying of the Prophet
Distribution
God it is who gives: I am only a distributor.

Idries Shah