Bill Murray Quotes

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.

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

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'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

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.

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.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.