"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."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

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"The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process."

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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."

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"Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground."

Society

"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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"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."

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"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."

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"The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion."

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"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."

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"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."

Money

"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."

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