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"You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories."
People
"I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents."
Work
"We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible."
Money
"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
Relationship
"You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp."
Hardware
"I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day."
Work
"I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy."
Love
"I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life."
Life
"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."
School
"The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions."
Eating
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