Peter Bart Quotes

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

Decision, Made, Picture

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

Movies, Past, Same

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

Love, Serious, Fall

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

Find, Goals, Hollywood

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

Around, Movie, York

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

Creativity, Level, Nurture

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

Movies, Hollywood, Shows

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

Business, Down, Leaving

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

Star, Example, Ultimate

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

Problems, Anyone, Brando

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

Study, Stars, Public

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

Two, Year, Next

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

Movies, Surprises

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

Creative, Process, Danger

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

Today, Decision, Process

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

Two, Read, Three

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

Picture, Financial, 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.
Peter Bart

Money, Today, Put

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

Society, Gay, Become

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

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Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: June 24, 1932

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