Industry Connection Quotes

I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

There is a need for new talent in the industry but newcomers don't know whom to approach and how. Social media has become a bridge.

David Bendeth was introduced to me by an entertainment lawyer friend.

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

No one in my family had ever been in the business.

I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.

I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.

What's really amazing is that the showrunner who really got me my start in TV is Andrew Kreisberg. He brought me on to 'Arrow,' and he tracked me down because he was a fan of 'Punisher.'

I'm really, really close with Kevin Owens. We talk practically every day. He was a guy who really, really helped me, both in Ring Of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

As for me I may not have relatives in the film industry. But I grew up in Mumbai as an avid moviegoer. So I don't feel like an outsider.

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We're both from the same background.

I met Rick Rubin through Cat Collins, a DJ friend of mine that had worked for Rubin at American Recordings.

Sure, I have been a part of many Telugu movies, but I got those films because of my Hindi movies.