I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, How does creativity apply across the board?

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn’t.

Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn’t have any edge.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial, and political prize in the world.

I’ve decided something: commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks

This one commercial said, ‘Forget everything you know about slipcovers.’ So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn’t know what they were!

I saw a commercial on late night TV, it said, “Forget everything you know about slipcovers.” So I did. And it was a load off my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, and I didn’t know what the hell they were.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L’Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I’d be associated with them.