Hollywood Executives Quotes

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

Working with Kevin Feige has just been a joy.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me.

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.

The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.