39 Quotes by Peter Bart

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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