Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

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

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?

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

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.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

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.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

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

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?