Matt Dillon Quotes

There are times when you earn your rather inadequate salary by just doing the right thing.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

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The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

One of the reasons - I stopped doing films for about a year and a half because I felt that I was being somewhat used by producers that were trying to get their movies made within a certain budget range and not take care of me.

When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

Two things - one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically - the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you're making stuff that you're proud of and you can get behind.