Son Ye-jin Quotes

I've never been driven by box office.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

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.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

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

You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.

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.

If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.