Quotes About The Film Industry

#1. If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Diane Cilento

#2. So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

Joshua Michael Stern

#3. If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

Luke Evans

#4. There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

Jodelle Ferland

#5. Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

Patricia Riggen

#6. My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.

Gina Torres

#7. Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Hideo Kojima

#8. After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub

#9. My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

Randolph Scott

#10. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Gerard Depardieu

#11. I think in general, and in the film industry, that idea of having only one type of girl is changing. There's more variety because it's the world we live, and we want to portray that.

Stephanie Sigman

#12. I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Thandie Newton

#13. Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Tom Felton

#14. One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

Andrzej Wajda

#15. You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

Winona Ryder

#16. I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

Cate Blanchett

#17. in its early days the film industry made more than four hundred silent movies exploiting the nation's fascination with Appalachian feuds and moonshine making.

Dwight B. Billings

#18. I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

Imtiaz Ali

#19. In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Scott Adkins

#20. I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Ava DuVernay

#21. I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Christine Lahti

#22. In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size. It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference.

Deepika Padukone

#23. I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

Cate Blanchett

#24. The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

Bette Midler

#25. I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

Dorothy Arzner

#26. Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

Tommy Wiseau

#27. What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

Octavia Spencer

#28. When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Julian Fellowes

#29. Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

John Hurt

#30. The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

Ashton Kutcher

#31. I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

Lavrenti Lopes

#32. It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Michiel Huisman

#33. [The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

Keira Knightley

#34. My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

Emily Browning

#35. People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

Salman Khan

#36. In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Christopher Nolan

#37. From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.

Ridley Scott

#38. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

Monica Bellucci

#39. 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Peter Jackson

#40. Bachchan has been in the film industry over 35 years and he is the real king. There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan

Akshay Kumar

#41. I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

Deepika Padukone

#42. The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

Christopher Lee

#43. Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you

Lynne Ramsay

#44. The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.

Tara Reid

#45. The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Melissa Rosenberg

#46. It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.

Mark Wahlberg

#47. I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

David Wenham

#48. I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

Lesley Gore

#49. The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

James Cameron

#50. I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does.

Kellan Lutz

#51. It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

Amber Heard

#52. Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.

Judie Brown

#53. The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

Gal Gadot

#54. Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.

Kyle Cassie

#55. It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with
a smile.

Katrina Kaif

#56. Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Thomas Perry

#57. The movies are probably a very unsafe guide to popular taste, because the film industry is virtually a monopoly, which means that it is not obliged to study its public at all closely.

George Orwell

#58. There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.

Katrina Kaif

#59. I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

Mia Wasikowska

#60. The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

Chloe Sevigny

#61. My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

Werner Herzog

#62. In the film industry, especially in the TV branch, there is a widespread contempt for the viewing public, which explains why the great majority of films are boring and stupid.

Dean Koontz

#63. I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

Patricia Riggen

#64. I want to print books by people in the film industry.

Brett Ratner

#65. I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

Chika Anadu

#66. It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.

Tony Scott

#67. It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

Karl Urban

#68. I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'

Emraan Hashmi

#69. The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.

Betty White

#70. I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

Johnny Depp

#71. Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.

Anupam Kher

#72. The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

Richard E. Grant

#73. When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#74. There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

Andrzej Wajda

#75. The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

Pope John Paul II

#76. I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

Om Puri

#77. I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

Sonam Kapoor

#78. Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

Marta Kristen

#79. Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Rachel True

#80. I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

Noah Hawley

#81. It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Eric Stoltz

#82. I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Amanda Seyfried

#83. The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

Madhuri Dixit

#84. People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Elle Macpherson

#85. People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.

Nick Frost

#86. I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

Chuck Connors

#87. In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

Joe Swanberg

#88. It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Renny Harlin

#89. When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

James Franco

#90. The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

Sanjay Dutt

#91. Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

Shailene Woodley

#92. The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

Melanie Mayron

#93. When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Seeing the way that people hold themselves and compose themselves before a scene - it's inspirational.

Asa Butterfield

#94. You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

Ryan Guzman

#95. A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#96. No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

#97. Now I don't know if you realize it, but the film industry's a small world. It's like living in a tenement at one end of a back alley. Not only do you see everybody's dirty laundry, but once rumors start, you can't stop 'em.

Haruki Murakami

#98. The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

Edward Norton

#99. We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

Ben Barnes

#100. I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

Will Oldham