Paula Garces Quotes

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Isn’t it the case that foreigners always want money?

The black community wants to buy things and want to see themselves portrayed in a certain way. And if they don't like what they see, then they won't spend their money. Everyone's not gonna always relate to Captain America; everyone is not going to always relate to Thor. A lot of characters just don't speak to them.

I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

Audiences are more drawn in to what they can relate to, so it would be stupid not to have great Latino films for the Latino audience.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.