American Quotes

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.