Capitalist Quote by Willem Dafoe

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular…

— Willem Dafoe

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only…

— Alexander Payne

Everybody who's making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they're good. And if you don't show up and see the movies…

— Paul Feig

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right…

— Laura Dern

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly…

— Woody Allen

There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a movie made,…

— Paul Wernick

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…

— Ranbir Kapoor

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

— Bill Mechanic

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make…

— Robert Zemeckis

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies…

— Steve Guttenberg

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly

— Laura Dern