The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.
There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop...
I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.
College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported fro...
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they...
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.
The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.
