Studios Quotes · Page 8

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

— Flo Rida

Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

— Miles Davis

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

— Callie Khouri

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life…

— Jane Hirshfield

I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

— JD Era

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

— Glynis Johns

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

— Joseph Kosinski

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

— George Hamilton

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride…

— Harvey Weinstein

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,…

— Jeff Beck

Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all.…

— Aml Ameen

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room…

— Robbie Coltraine

I think Hollywood is more of a state of mind then a place. There are certainly iconic locations in L.A. but as…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a…

— Thomas Lennon

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s…

— Bryan Singer

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I…

— Beck

Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when…

— Mark Strong

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from…

— Irving Penn

One day I was in the studio with my cousin. My dad was on tour at the time, so just for fun…

— Lil Romeo

I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to…

— St. Lucia

I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided…

— Feist

Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early…

— Pete Docter

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was…

— Gerard Way

You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.

— Joseph Murphy

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

— Chris Shiflett

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a…

— Kendrick Lamar

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

— Aphex Twin

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm…

— Jacob Collins

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

— Robert Ben Garant

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

— Irwin Winkler

I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown…

— Judith Hill

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.

— Tucker Max

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

— Zach Condon

“We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”

— Don DeLillo

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

— George Hamilton