Peter Cushing Quotes

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

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

I want to make sensible commercial films.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

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.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.