I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
Lester Bangs: And then it just becomes an industry of... cool.
Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed,...
I don't put any pressure on myself in terms of what people or fans do or don't want. It really just doesn't occur to me. I honestly just want to make the films I want to see as a fan. The film will survive or fail in my mind by how much I like it. Ha...
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever....
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the bl...
Ray: What are they doing over there? They're filming something. They're filming midgets! Ken: Ray... [Ray runs off and watches Jimmy being instructed by the director, who Jimmy flicks off as soon as he leaves] Ken: Ray, come on. Let's go. Ray: My ars...
One of the reasons I did 'Louie Bluie' and 'Crumb' with Criterion was because I like a lot of their older French films. That's the only reason. I watch these films by Jacques Becker and Jean-Pierre Melville. 'Touchez Pas Au Grisbi,' stuff like that. ...
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
