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"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."
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"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
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"Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting."
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"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."
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"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
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"I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director."
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"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
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"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
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"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
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"I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between."
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"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."
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