Quotes About Creativity

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

A business can be started with very little money.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.