Kay Kay Menon Quotes

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

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.

Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.

The industry is all about money. It has nothing to do with talent and calibre. The star system is a money game.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an entertainment industry.

Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.