Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

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

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.

Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.

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.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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.

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.