Industry Insiders Quotes

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know.

In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

The Big Music Project gives young people access to producers, managers, set designers, artists and a load of other industry insiders who are at top of their game. It can be difficult to know where to start and this project gives young people who are passionate about music, knowledge and hands on experience.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.

Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

I trust most people. Not producers.

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry

What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors." It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.

There aren't many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry.

Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.