Lisa Frank Quotes

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

Success is what sells.

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.