Comedy Quote by Kit Williamson

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

— Lauren Graham

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

— Alexander Payne

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating…

— Jehane Noujaim

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness…

— Irrfan Khan

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

— Jim Gaffigan

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to…

— Chris Hegedus

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's…

— Mike Flanagan

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

— Lulu Wang

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to…

— Matt Taibbi

“There's just something about progressive charities and celebrity-backed causes that makes every "charity" they create or touch turn into a money pit or a…

— Jason Mattera

I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at…

— Laurel Nakadate

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage