Money Quotes
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The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
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Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.
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Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.
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I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
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Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.
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I spend most of my money in Prada or plane tickets.
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The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.
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Well Dad, send the money, See what I can see, Try to find a Cadillac, A Sixty-two or three. Just something that won't worry us To keep it on the road. Sincerely, your beloved son, Henry Junior Ford
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I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
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You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.
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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
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In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.
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Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
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There are a lot of things that money can't buy, and once you realize that is how you break free.
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Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.
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We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
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It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.
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Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
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My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.
