Peter Bart Quotes

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Economy, Money, Movies

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Producers, Production

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Discussion, Acting and Actors

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Disney, Entertainment

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Decision

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Hollywood

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Creativity

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Behaviour

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Information

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Surprise

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Filmmakers

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Media

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Danger

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meeting

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Hollywood

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Analysis

• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Attitude, Society

  Tags in Lifestyle

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

  Peter Bart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commercial

Peter Bart (20)

Birth:	24th July, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Author, Editor, Journalist, Producer, Screenwriter, Writer

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