Claire Denis Quotes

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

I'm for economic independence.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.