Contracts Quote by Ursula Andress

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m…

— George Hamilton

I had to beg to get out of my contract with Capitol. They wanted me to work with big producers. I wanted to produce…

— Hope Sandoval

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

— Leslie Caron

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for…

— Anonymous

I had to take over the reins of the company at a time when I did not know a thing about the business. The…

— Bhushan Kumar

When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off…

— David Fincher

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio

— Eli Wallach

I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because…

— Kat Graham

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask…

— Glen Mazzara

Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to…

— Matthew McConaughey

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

— Bill Paxton

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