Paul Morrissey Quotes

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

I have made all my monies through cinema.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

I've never made a film that lost money.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

I've been offered a few movies lately, but I don't want to do a movie just for the sake of saying, 'Oh, boy! There's popcorn involved in this.'

Years ago, I tried my hand at business and incurred huge loss, and my only way out was to do a movie with Mammootty.