My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?
Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.
If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.