Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

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

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

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

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with pitching a horror movie when you were dealing with the studios. Unless it was viewed as a cheap product that could turn a lot of profit, there wasn't a lot of interest in making it good.