Rozonda Thomas Quotes

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

A lot of people can raise money.

I know about raising money.

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

I am good at raising money.

I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing.

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.

Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.