Autonomy Quote by Eric Bischoff

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

— Ben Stiller

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when…

— Jay-Z

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended…

— Stephen J. Cannell

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

— Patrick J. Adams

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

— Arlo Guthrie

I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.

— Jesse Itzler

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business…

— Alrick Brown

Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to…

— Dennis Hopper

The first couple of years of my career were going fantastic, everything running smoothly. I was the next best thing. Obviously there were problems…

— James DeGale

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was…

— John Cullum

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

— Noel Edmonds

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be…

— Rory Bremner