"Power is an elusive term, but in Hollywood it's everything, I don't care what they say, you either have it, want it, or you're afraid of losing it."
ART LINSON
"Power is an elusive term, but in Hollywood it's everything, I don't care what they say, you either have it, want it, or you're afraid of losing it."
THE ETERNAL EXECUTIVE
”You’re very unhappy for a long period of time. And you don’t experience joy. At the end you experience relief, if you’re lucky.” -John Calley, accepting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences near the end of his life.
THE MACHINE
"The thing what you learn in directing is that no matter how complex the shooting, you have to remain sensitive to the people around you or the machine will ultimately take over. If you don't keep in mind the essential humanity of it all, technique will dominate." - Irvin Kerschner
SHOWBUSINESS TODAY
"This business is scrounging around for what to do. The medium is busy displaying the fat lady at 375 pounds (who) in two months is gonna be 240. Who gives a shit? The industry has destroyed themselves. It's no longer relevant because it now puts all of its product on a stupid phone. You're going to put 'Lawrence of Arabia' on that goddamned stupid sonofabitch?"
-Jerry Lewis
OIL!
“If [our] effort to develop shale oil is successful, as I believe it will be, then the news we’ll report in the coming decades will reflect a more prosperous, more democratic and more secure world.”
-Rupert Murdoch, on discovering oil in Israel
WELLES ON ANTONIONI
"I don't like to dwell on things. It's one of the reasons I'm so bored with Antonioni - the belief that, because a shot is good, it's going to get better if you keep looking at it. He gives you a full shot of somebody walking down a road. And you think, 'Well, he's not going to carry that woman all the way up that road.' But he does. And then she leaves and you go on looking at the road after she's gone!"
GASPAR NOE
"If you write a script or write novels then OK- you're an auteur, but when you're directing movies you feel more like a politician or the captain of a football team. At the end of the day you need ten or eleven good people behind you if you're gonna win the game."
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FILM
"Apathy and Cynicism are not the parents of great art, great movies or great entrepreneurs. The day our passion and enthusiasm subsides will be the day of our undoing. We need to stay plugged in and turned on. I have realized the need to be involved with great movies is one part of it, but the even greater need is to be surrounded by inspiring entrepreneurs."
Graham Taylor
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