I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.
We are in a downhill slide, the likes of which we have never seen in our business. And the Japs are in the wings ready to eat us up alive.
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
Cinema has reached a dead end.
High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.
The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made.
