I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
