Viv Albertine Quotes

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It's all about how many bucks can you make on a concert.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

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.

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.

I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.

When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.