Big Quote by David Leslie Johnson

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

— Richard King

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great…

— L. Ron Hubbard

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for…

— Stephen Gaghan

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people don't get…

— Gaspar Noe

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all…

— Bruce Vilanch

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million…

— Jason Blum

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

— Robin Williams

This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies.…

— Mark Duplass

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

— Campbell Scott

I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.

— Zal Batmanglij