Jon Favreau Quotes

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.