I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.
Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!
As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
