We’ve gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that’s an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry. – Jeff Nichols
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It’s great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don’t believe that. – Jerry West
Quality isn’t about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there’s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! – Helen McCrory
I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me. – James Altucher
If you’re making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that’s not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren’t exactly the same. – Jamie Dimon
I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know? – Jenny McCarthy
You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. – Greg LeMond
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. – Joan Rivers
Say you’re an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required? – Joshua Cohen
Not only does Hollywood make money – it seems to make better movies during recessions. I’m sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year. – John Ridley
If we’re going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals. – John Dingell
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn’t hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly. – Judy Holliday
Remember that government doesn’t earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. – Jesse Ventura
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. – James Naismith
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it’s just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie. – Jackie Collins
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. – Jill Lepore
I’m someone who’d never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is. – Jessie J
The people who are buying stocks because they’re going up and they don’t know what they do deserve to lose money. – Jim Cramer
I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: ‘That’s unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.’ It really interested me. – Ivan Glasenberg
Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we’ve never got enough money to make them. – James McAvoy
We have got a – we’ve got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we’re paying them too much money. – Jason Chaffetz
Fashion really is women’s liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It’s really sad. And it’s not about money. – Iris Apfel