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Peter Bart Quotes

American - Editor | June 24, 1932 -

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

You Movies Surprises Because Get

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

Creative Process Hollywood Danger

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

Today Decision People Process Maybe

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.

Meeting Three First Discussion Room

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

Commitment Financial Picture Media

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.

Today Money Beginning People Picture

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.

Society Feel Gay Cozy Become More

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

Kind See Going Commercial Very

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