James McAvoy Quotes

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

Without money nothing gets done.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

Where is the money?

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a business. You want everyone to make money.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

It all comes down to money.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.