Industry Professionals Quotes

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I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I've had.

I realized how important it was to have a good team - manager, attorney and label. It's not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.

I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.

I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

I hope I get an opportunity to work with Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva, as they are very supportive people.

There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and holding music up in the process.

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

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

I do not like producers.

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.