M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

We've always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We're actually strangely consistent in that respect.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

The business has been good to me.

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.

I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

I think in the long term, you make money with focusing on the sport.

I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.

I know I make a lot of money, but for me - I came from nothing, so it's always been about the love of the game.

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.

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride.