Chad Kroeger Quotes

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

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

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Don't write for money.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

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 film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.