Orson Welles Quotes

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

I've only experienced it a few times where you get to have a thing that simultaneously gets some critical respect, some critical success, while also having sales success. Sometimes you get one or the other if you're lucky.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. 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.

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

The initial response to 'Yennai Arindhaal' was that it didn't have all the quintessential commercial elements, though I consider it as my most commercial venture.