Peter Bart Quotes

#1. Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

Austin O'Malley

#2. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Peter Bart

#3. The key to achieving desired results and gaining freedom from unwanted feelings lies within you.

Maddy Malhotra

#4. It was then that I realized my life was my own. I could do anything, be anyone, if I only had the courage.

Kandi Steiner

#5. God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Alfred Korzybski

#6. A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Peter Bart

#7. Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Peter Bart

#8. Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Peter Bart

#9. That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Peter Bart

#10. The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

Peter Bart

#11. The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

Peter Bart

#12. A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Patricia Wentworth

#13. It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Peter Bart

#14. The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

Peter Bart

#15. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

Stephane Mallarme

#16. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

#17. Whether I'm standing behind you or facing you, the view's pretty nice.

Tarryn Fisher

#18. We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.

Thomas Paine

#19. Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Bob Dylan

#20. One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Peter Bart

#21. Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.

John Cena

#22. I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

Simon Callow

#23. It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Peter Bart

#24. Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

Peter Bart

#25. To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Golda Meir

#26. Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

Peter Bart

#27. We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

Peter Bart

#28. I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Peter Bart

#29. The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Peter Bart

#30. We have been created for God and by God to transform the world around us.

Christine Caine

#31. Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

Peter Bart

#32. Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Peter Bart

#33. Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

Peter Bart

#34. Do your homework and stand your ground.

Peter Bart