Coco Martin Quotes

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

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.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

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

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

No matter what happens to our game, money won't be a motivation for me.

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.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

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

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

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.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?