Familiar Quote by Alan Ball

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

— Conrad Hall

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

— Kovai Sarala

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

— Reed Hastings

I am conscious of making choices that balance the performance and commercial aspects. It's easy to get stereotyped in this industry.

— Raashi Khanna

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really…

— Brad Bird

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

— Morris Chestnut

Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent…

— Aneel Bhusri

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant…

— Peter Bart

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used…

— Jerry Mander

We tend to perceive Hollywood as an industry that is trying to mitigate risk more and more.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

The political vibe of late-'40s Hollywood through the mid-'50s is something we're seeing a lot of echoes of right now, and in a scary…

— Ed Brubaker

Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories…

— Scott Derrickson