Nia Long Quotes

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The American Dream is really money.

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for 'Million Dollar Baby' were tailor made.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.