Martha Plimpton Quotes

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities. If you have the cameras and reasonable capital, you can put your film in theatres next to 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' A great example of that was Kagiso Lediga's film 'Blitz Patrole.'

Every person who is laid off in our society is in effect told that he is a person of little worth.

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.