Industry Survival Quotes

I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I think a lot of people underestimate the physical demands required to be a top model. It's not just what you're doing on set, it's the strength you have to have to survive in a cutthroat industry. It's the quick wit and the quick thinking on your feet in certain situations.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.

In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

This whole game of hit and flops will always be there and I have survived because I am hit. I think industry works on hit and flop.

What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Every choice I'm making now is so that I can keep working for the next 30-40 years in this industry. These are not creative choices. These choices are to stay in the business, for many years to come.

To survive in this industry, you need to prove yourself. Stardom follows.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

Everybody who's making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they're good. And if you don't show up and see the movies and support them financially, no one is going to make them. It's going to change unless it makes money. That's the long and short of it. You have to give in to the fact that it's a business.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.