I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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.
Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'
An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.
We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
