Ann Macbeth Quotes

What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

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

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

The trouble is, the older you get, it's hard to find time to make a film: it's a year to write, a year to get money, a year to make it, a year to edit. It's four years of your life.

Financially, it's true that France does not have the same pulling power as England, Spain or Italy. But this is not the aspect that matters most to me.

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

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

The people in Nepal don't care about alpinism; they just care about money.

In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

The more experience I get, the more I know to relax and let go of things because there's so much that is out of your control. So much needs to happen to get a film made nowadays and star power doesn't even matter anymore. So, me being what I am, I have to realise that to an extent.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

Movie is a near art form. It's showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it's a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that's the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar.

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.