Industry Practices Quotes

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn't come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It's the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It's the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

It's not easy for an outsider to understand this industry.

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.