Creative Finance Quotes

A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock 'n' roll songs and making commercials out of them, but from a songwriter's standpoint, I don't mind because it helps pay my rent.

You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n' roll.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

I like the art of making money more than the money.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.