Dario Argento Quotes

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.