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There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
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RUPERT SANDERS![]()
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I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
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SEAN KINGSTON![]()
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ...
JESSIE J![]()
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a ...
RALPH FIENNES![]()
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KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON 'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respe...
MAX LANDIS There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS![]()
Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie...
MORTEN TYLDUM![]()
The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. ...
AL MICHAELS When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar...
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JOHN FRUSCIANTE There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to...
BAZ LUHRMANN![]()
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime...
BRUCE WEBER![]()
I think one of the great things about 'Bridesmaids' is that it's a big studio comedy, bu...
ADAM SCOTT I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of ...
DON CHEADLE There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Cana...
DEAN DEVLIN![]()
There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity...
ALEC BALDWIN![]()
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't k...
JOHNNY CASH I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw...
FRANKIE MUNIZ It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight pe...
DAVID GRAVES When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio...
DEAN DEVLIN I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's stu...
TROY CARTER I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on th...
ENYA![]()
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single ...
JARON LANIER You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system ha...
TOM ATKINS![]()
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You ca...
AARON SORKIN![]()
I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That...
MERRY CLAYTON The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds ...
ZACK SNYDER![]()
When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the fin...
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JOEL COEN![]()
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou...
MORGAN FREEMAN![]()
On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact...
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. T...
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MARIANA FULGER![]()
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SUNG KANG![]()
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little c...
DAVID BYRNE If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
BEN LEWIN There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's o...
CLAUDIA RANKINE![]()
A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bou...
MICHAEL ANGARANO They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old p...
DANIEL PETRIE When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry...
JESSICA WILLIAMS In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve...
RACHEL WEISZ My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
BONNIE HAMMER![]()
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio ...
JUDITH JAMISON There are wonderful films that become studio films, but they're conceived independently. That...
DAVID CARRADINE![]()
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it&#...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealt...
MARK V. HURD I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten ...
CARLA GUGINO![]()
I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is b...
ELLIOTT SMITH In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time...
BRUCE NAUMAN![]()
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS![]()
The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and th...
EDDIE MURPHY There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six...
OLESYA RULIN Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films....
SEYMOUR CASSEL![]()
When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a...
SOLANGE KNOWLES I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording st...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em...
KATHRYN HAHN![]()
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do y...
ADAM MCKAY We're not sure if we've got two people out there or three people or a group of people or if it's jus...
CMDR. KIM HUMPHREY There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do...
GABRIELLE UNION![]()
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you s...
RYAN KAVANAUGH![]()
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'...
SAM SMITH I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It...
TONY CURRAN![]()
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no dif...
MONICA BELLUCCI There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a ha...
PATRICK STUMP Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a ca...
CHARLIE ERGEN Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you ...
RANDAL KLEISER I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in...
IMOGEN HEAP![]()
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved ...
SHARON GLESS I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in ...
CALLIE KHOURI There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - ev...
ROB REINER![]()
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized ...
DAVID ZUCKER Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is li...
PHIL ANSELMO To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot ...
C. THOMAS HOWELL![]()
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
LESLIE CARON But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any s...
GRIFFIN DUNNE For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, i...
ALEX GRAVES![]()
Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70...
MICHAEL LEUNIG![]()
Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second...
HARSHA BHOGLE I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - t...
BRUCE NAUMAN You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m...
AMAURY NOLASCO![]()
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio...
BILL PAXTON![]()
It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
JOAQUIN PHOENIX
GEORGE SIDNEY When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don&#...
LOUIS LETERRIER
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. SHIA LABEOUF My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.
ROBERT GREENBLATT I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That...
BEN HARPER So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I...
RUPERT SANDERS
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much eithe...
IMOGEN POOTS I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustration...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio. REBECCA HALL It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.
SEAN KINGSTON
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ... JESSIE J
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a ... RALPH FIENNES
There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven... KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON 'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respe...
MAX LANDIS There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS
Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie... MORTEN TYLDUM
The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. ... AL MICHAELS When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar...
CHARLIE WORSHAM For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studi...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to...
BAZ LUHRMANN
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime...
BRUCE WEBER
I think one of the great things about 'Bridesmaids' is that it's a big studio comedy, bu... ADAM SCOTT I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of ...
DON CHEADLE There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Cana...
DEAN DEVLIN
There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity... ALEC BALDWIN
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't k... JOHNNY CASH I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw...
FRANKIE MUNIZ It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight pe...
DAVID GRAVES When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio...
DEAN DEVLIN I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's stu...
TROY CARTER I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on th...
ENYA
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single ... JARON LANIER You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system ha...
TOM ATKINS
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You ca... AARON SORKIN
I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That... MERRY CLAYTON The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds ...
ZACK SNYDER
When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the fin... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations...
JOEL COEN
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou... MORGAN FREEMAN
On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact... CRAIG GROESCHEL
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. T... MAC MILLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater... DAVID TENNANT I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other ar...
GUY BERRYMAN
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the da... ALVIN AILEY On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes;...
SUNG KANG
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little c... DAVID BYRNE If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
BEN LEWIN There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's o...
CLAUDIA RANKINE
A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bou... MICHAEL ANGARANO They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old p...
DANIEL PETRIE When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry...
JESSICA WILLIAMS In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve...
RACHEL WEISZ My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
BONNIE HAMMER
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio ... JUDITH JAMISON There are wonderful films that become studio films, but they're conceived independently. That...
DAVID CARRADINE
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it&#... ROBERT GOTTLIEB Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealt...
MARK V. HURD I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten ...
CARLA GUGINO
I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is b... ELLIOTT SMITH In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time...
BRUCE NAUMAN
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording ... ROBIN WILLIAMS
The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and th... EDDIE MURPHY There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six...
OLESYA RULIN Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films....
SEYMOUR CASSEL
When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a... SOLANGE KNOWLES I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording st...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em...
KATHRYN HAHN
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do y... ADAM MCKAY We're not sure if we've got two people out there or three people or a group of people or if it's jus...
CMDR. KIM HUMPHREY There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do...
GABRIELLE UNION
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r... T-PAIN When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you s...
RYAN KAVANAUGH
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'... SAM SMITH I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It...
TONY CURRAN
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no dif... MONICA BELLUCCI There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a ha...
PATRICK STUMP Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a ca...
CHARLIE ERGEN Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you ...
RANDAL KLEISER I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in...
IMOGEN HEAP
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved ... SHARON GLESS I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in ...
CALLIE KHOURI There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - ev...
ROB REINER
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized ... DAVID ZUCKER Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is li...
PHIL ANSELMO To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot ...
C. THOMAS HOWELL
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years. LESLIE CARON But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any s...
GRIFFIN DUNNE For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, i...
ALEX GRAVES
Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70... MICHAEL LEUNIG
Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second... HARSHA BHOGLE I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - t...
BRUCE NAUMAN You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m...
AMAURY NOLASCO
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio... BILL PAXTON
It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone. JOAQUIN PHOENIX
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
I believe time wounds all heels. 
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about ... 
In the summer of 2012 - and we do as we do when we get together to brainstorm an idea - we were both... 
Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people ... 
We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, a... 
You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself ju... 