Peter Bart Quotes
- Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious…
- Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this…
- I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
- It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
- 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 to…
- Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of…
- Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
- Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
- Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will…
- The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
- Do your homework and stand your ground.
- That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
- The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.
- Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers…
- We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.
- A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
- The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run…
- Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
- The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
- The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three…