#executive

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#developing #every #executive #finding #had

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#boulevard #executives #me #paramount #pleased

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

No agency is better than its account executives. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#agency #better #executives #than

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff! ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#asked #asking #borrowed #break #city

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#called #chief #chief executive #executive #fortune

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#i #lot #me #still #studio