John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There was no cultural or social ethic behind it. For me, it was like selling out. I was the only one selling out. The rest enjoyed doing what they were doing.

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

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

You must spend money to make money.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

It's incredible how much money you can make on a rubber toy.

I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

Cecil B. DeMille worshipped the almighty buck.