Industry Demand Quotes

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.

It's always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good material, they all jump on it, and it's like a food fight to get it made. That's why so many things take years and years to develop because it all shows up on screen.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

It's not like I refuse to try roles other than being a strong female boss, but I am 54, and I'm happy I'm still being sought after and that I have a career that allows me a lot of creativity.

I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.

In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.