industry reputation Quotes

I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

I think there are more Australians making it in Hollywood... we have a fantastic reputation for having a great work ethic.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

I don't go by brand names for directors.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

You cannot say the whole industry is bad. There are bad people, but there are many good people as well.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.

People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language.

When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.

I want to be associated with good entertainment.

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.

I don't work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

The financial service industry has an image issue.

I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.

I've had a best-practices reputation in this industry for a long time. I don't know anything about those other apps, because in the bar space, there really are none.

When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.

I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.

I think Netflix have a bit of a reputation for being totally hands-off, which is not quite fair. They are very active and vested, but in a really good way.