Cinema Quote by Anthony LaPaglia

It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear…

— Woody Allen

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

— Tom Hardy

The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because there's so…

— Steven Knight

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get…

— Jerry Lewis

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

— Mahima Chaudhry

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

— Georgina Haig

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days…

— Gary Oldman

The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover…

— James Gray

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but…

— Jeffrey Skoll

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the…

— Karyn Kusama

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly

— Laura Dern

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

— Roger Ebert