Movie Studio Quotes

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

You see a Clint Eastwood movie, and you might not know if it's from Universal or Warner Bros. or another studio. He has affiliations with so many studios now, but there was a time when you'd just look at a movie and think, 'Oh, that's a Warner Bros. film.'

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

I remember the screen test for 'Gossip Girl' was on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. I was about 17 or 18 years old at the time. I remember driving onto the lot and going, 'Oh my God. This is surreal.'

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.

It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.'

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me to get to 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'

I had an interest in film, but I didn't want to go to Hollywood and make movies.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.