Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem. ”

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me. ”

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want. ”

I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market. ”

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy. ”

I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money. ”

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'. ”

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ”

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. ”

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material. ”