The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.
I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.
I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really p...
