Rosamund Pike Quotes

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!

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

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

A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.

I made my money by selling too soon.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

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