Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

You know, 'Top Gun' was the movie I saw in high school that made me want to be a filmmaker. I remember very specifically coming out of the Century 21 Theater in Colorado from seeing it, and my friend saying, 'What did you think of the movie?' And I said, 'I think I know what I want to do for a living.' That's a true story. ”

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. ”

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing. ”

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating. ”

I did a bunch of commercial voiceovers in Chicago before I left. For Balducci's pizza, I did a whole series. Actually I was making a good living with voiceover before I left. ”

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. ”

What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible. ”

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. ”

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else. ”

I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room. ”