Business Quote by Dianne Wiest

Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like…

— Andie MacDowell

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

— Joe Eszterhas

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a…

— Ben Affleck

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

— Iggy Pop

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few…

— Peter Weir

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the…

— Sandra Bullock

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like…

— Sean Penn

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're…

— Bill Murray

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even…

— Barry Levinson

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense…

— Phillip Noyce

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

— Eric Idle