Joss Whedon Quotes

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.

If you wanna make a lot of money, you should hire me.

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know how good you could've been in that role.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'

I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it, and I was like, 'Well, 'that's that.' I'm sure we wouldn't have made the same choice.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.

I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.