You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
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I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.
The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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.
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.