Nicholas Sparks Quotes

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a business. You want everyone to make money.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

Never argue with a profit.

There's always a conversation about business when it comes to the entertainment industry.

Publishing is a tough business.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.