Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

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

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.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.

The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

I ask myself all the time, 'Why keep doing this?' If I wasn't exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there'd be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, 'Just put something out there that someone will buy,' I would quit.

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

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

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

If someone makes a supernatural-themed show, and it becomes the best show, you are only making money and becoming famous. You are not learning anything from it. It's pure entertainment, even if the content is regressive.

I don't want to choose between commercial and independent cinema. I just want to choose between a good film and a bad film.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.