#dios

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#am #correct #even #how #i

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#hood #made #nothing #now #reality

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#else #embryo #exposed #grandiose #great

Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#course #doing #interested #keep #one thing

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. ↗

— Obie Trice

#get #go #i #lyrics #music

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#backup #became #child #first #gigs

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything. ↗

— Claire Trevor

#build #everything #how #knew #star

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#closed #died #director #find #get

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#confidence #daring #financiers #gave #grit