Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

When we got quite big and were generating a lot of money through the arenas, we became quite a big thing, and a lot of managers appeared, and it became a big machine, like we were in Pink Floyd or something, and I don't think we were into that. We didn't really compromise.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

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

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It's all about how many bucks can you make on a concert.

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

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

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

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 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.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.