Jason Gann Quotes

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

The American Motion Picture Industry will do all within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.