Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

Yeah, I'm financially good for the rest of my life - great. But I'm not trying to come here, get my butt kicked for 10 years, and go home to a lavish lifestyle. That's not fun for me.