Art Quote by Lew Wasserman

What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a…

— Susan Downey

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's…

— David Lynch

It's very hard to make a living as a producer these days. The reality of the business is the studios have cut way back…

— Marshall Herskovitz

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

— Sissy Spacek

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you're much…

— Nina Jacobson

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

— Nicolas Roeg

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they…

— Ann Rutherford

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

— Julie Andrews

In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked off the…

— John Boorman

Producers are now employees, not creators.

— Marshall Herskovitz

There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were…

— Michael Uslan