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All Quotes Collection
"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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"The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector."
39
"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
41
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
53
"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
37
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
39
"Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information."
46
"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."
38
"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
50
"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."
38
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
42
"This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history."
28
"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
37
"If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist."
33
"More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations."
26
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
Man,
47
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
66
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
56
"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."
50
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
49
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
180
"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
57
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
51
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
55
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
90
"The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock."
46
"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."
45
"News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy."
39
"Oil is a very important component of economic growth."
31
"Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense."
33
"Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research."
37
"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise."
31
"The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock."
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