"When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."

People, Committee

41

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."

Exlpore more People quotes

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

People, Hope, Race, Will

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

People, Writing

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

People, Beginning, Universe

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

H. G. Wells, English Author

People, May, Meaning

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

People, Universe

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

People, Consequences

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

People, Purpose, Forget

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

People, Fact, Job, President

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

People, Heroes, Old

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

People, Act, Custom, Learning

Explore more quotes by Thomas Lennon

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

Movies

"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."

Film

"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."

Money

"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."

Change

"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it."

Money

"There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice."

Comedy

"I was on the speech team, we called it forensics."

Speech

"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."

Thought

"The first record I bought with my own money was Rio."

Money

"I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters."

Character