Industry Power Quotes

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

We can fight Big Industry.

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.