Sissy Spacek Quotes

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

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.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

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

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

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.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

I do films that amuse me and I can enjoy watching.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.