Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
— Danny Boyle
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
— Abel Ferrara
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
— Tom Courtenay
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
— Rowan Atkinson
I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.
— Rosamund Pike
There are many vampires in the world today ... you only have to think of the film business.
— Christopher Lee
What does she do?""She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. — Julian Fellowes
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. — Mike Lookinland
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started. — Penelope Ann Miller
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. — Larry Wilcox
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. — Paul Dano
There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money. — Elmore Leonard
The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made. — Peter Hambleton
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business. — William Friedkin
Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both. — V. Alexander
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously. — James Franco
My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life. — Chris Columbus
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all. — Michael Patrick Jann
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him. — Jean Renoir
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. — Kathryn Bigelow
I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business. — Eli Broad
A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence. — David Caruso
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business. — Ian Somerhalder
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic. — Sofia Coppola
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If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want. — Lee Van Cleef
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me. — Jim Caviezel
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. — J. C. Chandor
Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple. — Jeffrey Jones
Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it. — Patrick J. Adams
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. — Sidney Poitier
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. — Steven Soderbergh
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business. — Daniel Craig
