James Wan Quotes

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

I wish our wallet could match our warmth.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.