Tim Minchin Quotes

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

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.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

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

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

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 also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

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.

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

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Professional sports is a business.

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.

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.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

I believe in cinema! Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Hindi cinema is non-cinema. Only marketing works here. Even the item songs in these films are an extension of marketing.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.