Elizabeth Banks Quotes

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

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.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

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

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake.

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

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

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.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity.