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While the studio's performance in the quarter will look dreadful, we don't think it reflects a significant negative turn in Disney's film business.

Katherine Styponias

What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.

Gord Lacey

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks

We don't want closed shops. These are open studios where the public is invited in to see how the art gets made. That's the ethos of the whole (NTC Promenade) project.

Alan Ziter

Charleston is very fortunate to have a significant number of working artists located in the community. We strive to be philanthropic, donating our art to numerous local charity events, and many of us open our studios and provide demonstrations to youth groups.

Lorelei Sims

That article caused such a ruckus in Hollywood that a number of studios wanted to buy the story rights, as well as a number of life rights.

Stacy Peralta

He so much protects the vision of the director, ... He always said, 'I'm making your film Tony. I'm not making my film or the studio's film. This is your film and that's what I want to be here for and that's what I want to protect.'

Tony Bui

It shows other network guys and studios that this is a viable market and is a great way to distribute their content.

Ben Bajarin

I don't think there's a big difference between the male and female executives. The studios are now owned by corporations. They're all driven by the bottom line.

Robin Swicord

Renowned development studios around the world are busy putting the finishing touches on their Xbox 360 games .

Robbie Bach

A lot of the studios were scared that when you don't have a narrative, especially with these kinds of game show-type programs, that there might not be enough interest out there for people to buy it. But the assumption that people don't want to have them on their shelves is wrong. Just like there are fans of 'Charmed' and 'The OC,' they want to own every episode of 'Survivor.

Gord Lacey

I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Ben Gazzara

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

James Coburn

The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.

Michelle Abraham

We're never going to outspend the competition in the marketing or production of a movie. What we can do as well or better than the studios ... is a realistic, gut-level, visceral horror movie that doesn't rely on special effects.

Tom Ortenberg

It?s ideal for movie studios and record labels to distribute their high-definition assets in a way that?s secure, cannot be copied, cannot be shared but can be viewed. It definitely is a factor in allowing us to get the rights.

Aaron Greenberg

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Joy Bacon

During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office.

Neil Meron

We were told to go to Universal Studios to pick up a camper of a movie and TV star.

Ross Rasmussen

He was the strangest little bird I'd ever seen. He had fluttered into the world of the studios and, could he not be swatted dead, I knew he would manage. I had total faith in him.

Maurice Sendak

We don't know exactly how they were built, presumably people who worked on site were asked to just build them. Sometimes, like in the studios, we just accepted the patina of paint that had accrued over time and just left it as a kind of found surface, which distinguishes and differentiates the rooms.

Thomas Payne

That's help us get noticed by Hollywood, the fact that these fans are a wellspring of money for the studios. With Lost, for instance, ABC called us (to initiate a convention tour). That was a really nice compliment after all these years.

Ceo Gary Berman

We've been in talks with movie studios and record labels, and they know, we've got this great primarily male, 18- to 34-year-old demographic, which is highly sought after for them.

Aaron Greenberg

We're going to try and stay concentrated on the one or two big releases a company has a month, rather than load a page with 10 or 12 titles. We are trying to get all of our studios involved with this.

Craig Jelin

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Marilyn Monroe

This year's festival is as 'independent' as it's ever been. There can be no confusion between the films we're showing and anything the studios would have even considered making.

Geoffrey Gilmore

The worldwide adoption rate of large-screen HDTV sets by consumers has increased significantly over the last year. There is now an enormous opportunity for consumer electronics manufacturers and Hollywood studios to supply consumers with high- definition media players and movies. As a result, we anticipate strong movie title and media player introductions in 2006.

Michelle Abraham

Some sleep in their studios so they can wake and work.

Linda Earle

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

Bill Murray

Star salaries are rising, production costs are rising, and [major] studios are owned by media conglomerates that are not necessarily doing well.

Christopher Null

It provides more choices for the consumer, ... and as the broadcast networks continue to compete head to head, it creates an environment where all of the studios are opting to bring the best programming to consumers.

Jill Krutick

The money's just coming in a different part of the release model since most of it's from DVD sales. This is still going to be one of the three biggest years in box office receipts, and by the way, they're bringing in $20 billion more in DVD revenue. So the studios are still getting their money. It's the exhibitors who have a concern.

David Mumpower

Offset Software's next generation graphics are simply stunning. And Offset's content creation tools will enable Red 5 Studios to add real-time cinematic quality to our game world.

Mark Kern

We built these amazing-looking futuristic planes entirely in Australia at Fox [Studios]. The techno stuff, Lizzy Gardiner's costumes ... I can't rave about the place enough, and if my next project comes off I'd shoot it in Australia without hesitation.

Rob Cohen

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well. I don't know if it's (due to) the corporations taking over studios or what it is. But it really calls for some young filmmakers to come in and just do something from their hearts.

Wes Craven

It was always such a joy going down the M40 to do my stint on The Archers. They were like a second family to me, ... I'm really gutted I can't do it anymore. We looked in to me recording here in LA but the cost of the studios was just ridiculous. I'm really sad to let it go.

Lucy Davis

It may be as new generations of moviegoers come along that this is the absolute best way for studios to capture additional dollars from these highly visible, highly successful products.

Jeffrey Logsdon

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Andrew Wyeth

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Peter Bogdanovich

We tend to be less strident than the big studios on issues of cultural diversity because we tend to promote it ... but there is substantial concern over how this will impact the industry.

Jean Prewitt

It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam Phillips didn't like his singing, but a secretary did and kept his phone number. Sam Phillips said one day he needed a white kid who could sing black, and she had Elvis' number in her drawer.

Stan Perkins

Movie studios executives told me we'd have more work than we can handle if we opened in Canada.

Peter Oberdorfer

We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control.

Joe Camp

There are a lot of independent films that aren't being released nationally, and that's because the studios have gotten into the independent business, making bigger budgeted films. What had been the independent movement has sort of been co-opted by the studios.

Jonathan Sehring

This has to be one of the darkest days in the history of Sony studios. Their attempt to kidnap James Bond has been foiled and once again 007 has prevailed.

Pierce O'donnell

We are in the process of setting up studios and intend to begin broadcasting just as soon as we can.

Herbert Becker

Paramount Studios fourth-quarter feature film slate was weak as four of the five films released in the quarter failed to generate domestic grosses in excess of their respective budgets.

Vijay Jayant

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Peter Bart

HB Studios, as well as EA, it really is almost a mini-UN. You get the best people from all over the world.

Tristan Jackson

So much great film has fallen by the wayside. The studios are collapsing the window between the theatrical release and the DVD. We're taking that one step further.

Jonathan Sehring

By the end of the year, manufacturers will launch dual-format players and holdout studios will announce support for both standards.

Chris Crotty

We used 30 minutes of studio time here and there when people had openings. We recorded it at various houses in this town and a few studios we can't mention. We had it mastered at Georgetown.

Jeff Holt

Our economic model is much different than the studios. When a Rob Zombie movie like 'The Devil's Rejects' grosses $17 million, or Eli Roth's first movie grosses $20 million, that's very successful for us.

Tom Ortenberg

Very few artists have studios with a gallery and sign outside. Others are simply working out of their apartment or their house. Through contacts, they start to show in Cuba. If they are lucky, they will be picked up by galleries in the United States or Europe.

Allison Hill

We have the same sense of humor as the Western studios, and we pay attention to detail like the Japanese.

Joy Bacon

Video CD players weren't necessarily supported by the Hollywood studios, but Indian and Chinese movie studios made content available and people were willing to buy them. I think you could see, to that extent, more than one standard.

Michelle Abraham

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

Roman is hands-down the best director I've ever worked with, ... But all of the 1970s was a great era because the studios really left you alone. What has come to be called 'independent film,' you could really do within the studio system at that time.

Robert Towne

It's leveling the playing field so independents can make better quality films and compete with the major motion picture studios.

James Sims

Boosting the industry's workforce with fresh animators to enable the studios to meet global demand is the most formidable challenge the industry faces.

Joy Bacon

It's never been the studios' way to just sell movies to their own channels.

Jonathan Taplin

[Movie making is] absolutely a global business right now, ... Studios want to make movies that play around the world.

Scott Hettrick

People consult from any location on something that's on the drawing board and well before any construction is commenced. But he's running the studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, full stop.

Chris Cooney

They're talking about turning the studios into a propaganda machine for the government, and that's wrong.

Tim Lynch

A lot of the studios that used to be independent three to five, maybe even 10 years ago have been absorbed into the major studios. You're seeing that more and more.

Greg Dean Schmitz

I've worked with him since he was 16 on `Freaks and Geeks' and always thought he could be a big comedy star, ... The nice thing about `Virgin' is that it shows the studios that if the premise is a strong one, you can take a chance on a new actor in the lead.

Judd Apatow

Marketers thought they lost out on the Internet, and they don't want to lose out on mobile phones, too. There is a lot of interest on the part of studios to do something different in mobile.

Linda Barrabee

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future.

Dan Glickman

One of the big ones is that Ronald Reagan was considered for the Humphrey Bogart role. Some sources suggest that revelation was a ploy by Reagan's publicist more than an actual fact. Producer Hal Wallace has said during interviews that Bogart was always intended for the part. However, it is true that studios always had backup rosters of names in case someone became unavailable.

Christopher Roberts

This is going to be that final piece that takes us to the next level. Again, we have a lot of great attractions here already, but with this with as kind of our signature attraction, it will do Disney's Animal Kingdom almost what Tower of Terror did for MGM Studios.

Richard Gregorie

It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might be a drop off in interest. What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.

Chris Anstey

Record labels and movie studios are coming to us and trying to figure out new ways to reach their consumers. They?re coming to us because the 18- to 34-year-old demographic - which is their core demographic - is becoming harder and harder to reach.

Aaron Greenberg

I think this is going to be a test for the studios.

Dan Fellman

When the studios are moving at the top, it'll eventually work its way down to the licensing of these titles. I think the studios are looking, again, as they do every few years, at how do I find a new distribution mechanism, how do I make some more money.

Bob Clasen

This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.

Fred Von Lohmann

Overall I think it represents challenges that you would face in the real world when you go out to choreograph on different companies or studios.

Shayla Bott

This is a forthright action on behalf of the studios, ... Piracy is such a severe problem nationally and internationally that harms both theater owners and retailers of DVDs. This action looks like it hits right at the heart of it.

Bo Andersen

It's going to be a huge destabilizing force to the studios.

Tom Rhodes

It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions Gate Films agreed to make the film. They liked the idea of a sports movie where spelling was the sport, something that might be compared to 'Hoosiers' or other good sports movies, but with a younger lead character.

Doug Atchison

So the windows are shrinking. That works to our advantage as a premium provider, and certainly an earlier DVD window, as a burn-to-own customer of the studios, would be very good for us.

Bob Clasen

The door is now open for discussion. More studios will consider them (movie musicals), but it doesn't mean they are going to rush out and make those movies. But at least there's consideration.

Craig Zadan

Bob is one of the most talented guys I've ever met. His studio's in his home so we would do vocal takes and guitar takes and then jump in the pool. It was a great experience.

Dallas Smith

What it does mean is Lions Gate and the other studios are very unlikely to get any more of Marvel's good characters.

Ben Fritz

The size of the houses makes them perfect for use as studios for artists and photographers and other art-oriented people.

Susan Hurt

I think this deal will be the beginning of a move toward day-and-date [releases] generally. The earlier you put a film into release on a particular technology the more you increase the revenue from that technology. . . . We're in discussions with all the studios about various distribution models related to their products.

Matt Bond

They're talking about turning the Hollywood studios into an organ of the government.

Tim Lynch

It was a real arts community. Everyone left their studios open so you could come in and see what they were working on or just borrow something.

Allen Perry

This 2.5 GHz spectrum has some very specific characteristics that make it suitable for bouncing signals from high density areas to helicopters and the like and back to the studios.

Julie Flynn

I can see the technology in the market this year. It really depends, however, on moving both the movie studios and the distributors to this technology at the same pace.

Joe Berchtold

Right now studios are just happy to break even at the box office.

Gitesh Pandya

That is one of the most amazing experiences I have had. Rehearsing in New York for the week, getting no sleep and actually going to studios in New York was great. It was just like the professionals live.

Devon Williams

Everyone in California is thinking about him, and that's where the studios are.

David Mumpower

I practice yoga at Baptiste Power Yoga, which has studios around town. It's great for flexibility, it's therapeutic, and great for your attitude. And it gets you some silence during your day.

Tom Brady

As a result you may see studios open fewer movies in the coming weeks, just because it's very difficult to market them.

Martin Grove

That's the main thing that's changed over the years. When I first came here in 1989, we really were pretty isolated. There was one phone in the main building that all the fellows used. Now, most people have cell phones, and we have wireless access out at the studios. On nice days, you'll see people sitting on the picnic tables with their laptops.

Craig Pleasants

It was at the original WAMO studios in Homestead, ... Porky taped us doing 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Sugar,' the blues hit by Lloyd Lambert, and some other songs. He played the hell out of 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Sugar,' both instrumentals, and they became our signature songs at the live shows we did.

Bob Leone

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Glynis Johns

We are thrilled to serve as the partner of choice and act as the vehicle for Microsoft to broaden its appeal among a more mainstream market focusing on children and family entertainment. We are confident our strong track record in developing integrated marketing and merchandising programs designed specifically for kids will enhance the future success of Microsoft Game Studios.

Alfred R. Kahn

Since we're all in Great Falls and we have this talent here already, and some people teach, some people show and some people have studios that people can come visit, there is an awful lot here right now.

Laura Nichols

It's the opposite of buying a spread in a newspaper or a slew of 30-second slots on TV, ... Studios need to stop trying to reach the most people and focus on reaching the best people.

Joseph Jaffe

We recorded it at Landmark Studios in Chesapeake, Ohio. We made 100 CDs and only have 10 left.

Blair Mays

Our dream is to have a headquarters building that would house a permanent exhibition area, classrooms for art teaching, and a bigger space to make room for more studios for artists.

Jonathan Fisher

It will definitely be an edge for us if we can boast of industry-certified animators. Studios will be confident that the people they are hiring are industry-ready and require little or no additional training.

Joy Bacon

We just stumbled on the idea of studios because the spaces we had were big, open and large, and we were told New York City didn't have a lot of those.

Alan Suna

We see it as a sort of mini version of Universal Studios -- a production facility that also is an entertainment destination.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

When I think about how fat the studios have become, I laugh. You have 24 people in the layout department-we're fat with personnel. All the rules and attitudes change in that kind of environment.

Don Bluth

There are some good writer/directors in the U.S. as well. In general the writing and directing tend to be separated but I bet that most of the directors have a big effect on the scripts. These days the studios tend to bring in hordes of writers.

Bruce Beresford

It helps Yahoo! users make more informed decisions about what they want to view and gives networks and studios more information about what users are really most interested in.

David L. Katz

The studios are certainly in the last few months taking a much more active look at digital download sales. Once Apple came out with video offerings, that's when studios really started looking at it more seriously.

Bruce Eisen

I don't know that the studios will see major income from this at first, as it takes about 90 minutes to download and it's unclear whether people currently have the ability to do that, but it's a good beginning.

Jay Cooper

We're urging studios to do more.

Joseph Curran

I think that ultimately the grouping that will have the deciding power is the movie studios in the US because they've got to feel comfortable in term of the intellectual property management of the movies.

Carlos Dimas

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Tony Bennett

Talk about cowboys. That's my passion. I think it's just wonderful when the studios revert back to doing westerns again.

Ernest Borgnine

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Eric Wold

The swimming was really fun and a new experience. I got to go to Universal Studios and a big mall. Emily Schwab (friend from Wisconsin) was there and a lot of my other friends on other teams.

Emily Campbell

I challenged them one more time and they came through for us. It's like going to Universal Studios and Disneyland. You want to ride that rollercoaster and not get off. We're going to stay on this one for a while.

Ed Hooi