Studio System Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
— Lucille Ball
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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
— Leslie Caron
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to…
— Francesca Annis
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There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured,…
— Martin Scorsese
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You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of…
— Phillip Noyce
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When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or…
— Thomas Lennon
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A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to…
— Richard Widmark
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the…
— Ralph Fiennes
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I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is…
— Rupert Friend
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I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a…
— Tippi Hedren
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The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
— Bill Forsyth
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There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
— Shia LaBeouf
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Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then,…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.
— Robert Greenblatt
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When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean…
— George Sidney
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We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
— Leslie Caron
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Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would…
— Michael Mann
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You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's…
— Tom Atkins
Who Wrote These Studio System Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Studio System Quotes as follows: