Quotes About Creativity

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.