Shane Black Quotes

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

With so much power, science will inevitably receive strong criticism. It comes with success. It’s entirely appropriate. Take it as a complement. And get over it.

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

When you walk out, the money walks in