Quotes of: Studio-system Keyword

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Robert Greenblatt

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Bill Forsyth

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

Thomas Lennon

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

George Sidney

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Ralph Fiennes

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Tom Atkins

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how t...

Spike Jonze

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Shia LaBeouf

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Leslie Caron

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Richard Widmark

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I c...

Michael Mann

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Leslie Caron

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Lucille Ball

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

Cameron Crowe

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

Gwyneth Paltrow

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Phillip Noyce

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

James Gray

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Rupert Friend

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Francesca Annis

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Baz Luhrmann