Commercial Aspect Quotes

This religion angle is a matter of practical business.

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.

I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.

Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.