Monetary Constraints Quotes

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

There's little money in theatre.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.