History Quotes / DoingItForTheArt

-->--'''Rohan Kishibe''', ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''

-->--''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''

-->--'''Creator/WilliamSBurroughs''', ''The Western Lands''

-->--'''Creator/AlexandreDumas''', ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''

-->--'''Music/{{DMX}}''', ''X Gon' Give It To Ya''

-->--'''Henry Longfellow''', ''The Builders''

-->--'''{{Music/NWA}}''', "Express Yourself" - ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.

-->--''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

-->--''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''

-->--'''''[[WebVideo/HalfInTheBag Half in the Bag]]''''' on Creator/BillMurray, ''Film/GhostbustersII'' rifftrack

-->--'''Creator/BillHicks'''

-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''{{VideoGame/Daikatana}}''

-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville4-ep08 Neal Bailey]]'''

-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-ballsiest-career-moves-by-famous-musicians/ "The 4 Ballsiest Moves By Famous Musicians"]]

->VideoGame/ChronoTrigger basically'' began as a jam session -- a couple of [[Creator/SquareEnix star designers]] and [[Creator/AkiraToriyama a manga artist]] getting together to brainstorm and seeing what they might produce. No pressure. No cynicism. No [[ExecutiveMeddling stockholders wringing their hands]] over whether having so-and-so as a hero instead of such-and-such might have a negative impact on profitability, or insisting the graphics and story [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings be changed midway through development to fit into an already-existing series]] rather than taking a chance on a new franchise.''
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=trigger Pat. R]]'''

->''That’s one of the paradoxes of Creator/CrispinGlover. He sees the world differently than just about everyone else. That allows him to bring a different perspective to the characters he plays. I don’t think you can over-estimate his contribution to ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. If George [=McFly=] had been performed as written, the movie would have lost a lot of kinetic energy. But because Glover has a unique point of view, he’s not all that interested in making the kinds of movies that most of us want to watch. He’s built his life around making his own movies in the Czech Republic, working in LA to pay for them and touring the world to present them a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible bewildered audience.]]''

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3EdUJJOPw George Weidman]]'''

-->--'''''Every Frame a Painting''''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ&index=1&list=UUjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A Jackie Chan - How to do Action Comedy]]''

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KWiq3guRU&t Two Minute Papers: Finally, A Blazing Fast Fluid Simulator!]]''

->''Fortunately, even at 22, I thought that what mattered most was not the world’s view of me but my view of the world, and so I survived. Others did not — like'' [John Horne] ''Burns, the best of us "war novelists." After the press attacked his ''Lucifer With a Book'', Burns fled to Europe and deliberately drank himself to death at 36. One must be very tough to endure as a writer in America. Since I’ve endured for almost a quarter century, I must be tough.''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->"Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it."
-->--'''Creator/KirkDouglas''' to Creator/StanleyKubrick on '''Film/PathsOfGlory'''.

->"I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgment of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one."
-->--'''Creator/AlastairSim'''

->"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."
-->--'''Creator/HarrisonFord'''

->"Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries."
-->--'''Creator/KeanuReeves'''

->“She is ruthlessly honest with everyone around her to the point of being blunt. She tends not to filter her thoughts. Some people might see that as being unsubtle or tactless, but there’s an in-built honesty and integrity there."

->"Theatre became a tool for me, as it still is, a tool to talk about the world. That's exactly what it is. Worth more to me than even money."
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGo8RRWHOUQ#t=1400s Avery Brooks]]'''

->"As much as you tell yourself, 'We made the film and here it is and that is enough,' you would like to come away with something."
-->--'''Creator/SteveBuscemi'''

->"If you wanna make a wealthy living, you become a doctor or a lawyer. But filmmaking is something you do just because you're obsessed."
-->--'''Creator/JamesRolfe'''

->"We don't worry about money. We worry about movie."
-->--'''Creator/TommyWiseau''', as quoted in in ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist''

->"We realised that struggling artists are meant to struggle, that's the whole point."
-->--'''[[Music/TheKLF Bill Drummond]]''' on why he burned £1 million of his own money

->"When you use a song for a TV commercial, it trivializes the meaning of the song. It almost turns it into nothing."
-->--'''[[Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival John Fogerty]]'''

->"I don't know that he liked the attention, but he liked what he was doing. I always had the feeling that he was doing it for himself. That it was rather immaterial to him whether people really sat there and listened. But he was happy in what he was doing."
-->--An elementary school teacher referring to one her students, musician Music/FrankZappa

->"People would ask him to do paintings, but if he did anything, it was because he wanted to do it. He could never do a commission - performing on stage is like being commissioned and doing what you're told to do creatively. He found that difficult."
-->--Rosemary Breen on her brother Music/SydBarrett

->"I think that attitude has changed since that statement, because any kind of mainstream acceptance that's going to happen is going to happen without our doing anything, and it has been that case periodically throughout our career... we find the way that {{Music/Sparks}}' music gets a bigger audience is when we are at our most eccentric and not concerning ourselves wondering 'Does this fit in?' or 'Is this commercial?' or 'Is this going to work on a radio platform?' kind of considerations. When it's at its most extreme is when it's at its most interesting."
-->--'''[[{{Music/Sparks}} Russell Mael]]''', [[http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/WebExclusive/sparks_russell_mael on]] abandoning his pursuit of mainstream success

->"I don't want to make responsible shows about lawyers. I want to invade people's dreams."
-->--'''Creator/JossWhedon'''

->"Make. Good. Art."
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman''', [[http://vimeo.com/42372767 2012 commencement speech]] to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

->[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] ''is my life, and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.''
-->--'''Creator/HideakiAnno'''

->''Part of me said, "So what? You’ve got a baby. You are making a lot of money. Shut up, enjoy it; go home early; go in late; relax. You’ve had a long ten years; take a break." But I couldn’t. It just ate at me. It was an integrity issue. I took a lot of pride in the work. The work matters to me. I took a lot of pride in what I did on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' and the movies. I just couldn’t work that way.''
-->--'''[[http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm Ronald D. Moore]]''' on quitting ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

->"If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can [[MerchandiseDriven sell more toys]]', I'd [[GettingTheBoot kick them out of my office.]]"
-->--'''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

->"We didn't make them for kids. We made them for ourselves."
-->--'''Creator/ChuckJones''' on the movie theater release (30s to 40s) ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts.

->''I have several problems with licensing. First of all, I believe licensing usually cheapens the original creation. When cartoon characters appear on countless products, the public inevitably grows bored and irritated with them, and the appeal and value of the original work are diminished. Nothing [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan dulls the edge]] of a new and clever cartoon like saturating the market with it...The cartoonist must become a factory foreman, delegating responsibilities and overseeing the production of things he does not create. Some cartoonists don’t mind this, but I went into cartooning to draw cartoons, not to run a corporate empire.''
-->--'''Bill Watterson''' on his refusal to shill ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' merchandise

->''The 'fine artist'--the ''pure'' artist--says to the world: 'I didn't do this for money! I didn't do this to match the color of your couches! I didn't do this to get laid! I didn't do this for fame or power or greed or anything else! I did this for ART!' In other words: ''[='=]My art has no practical value whatsoever!''\\
'But it's ''important!'
-->--'''Creator/ScottMcCloud''', ''ComicBook/UnderstandingComics''

-->--'''Wrestling/TerryFunk''', ''Forever Hardcore: The Documentary''

-->--'''Creator/TobyFox''', on ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''

->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''': What is it that makes you keep comin' back to creatin' games? I'm guessing you [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} don't really need to financially,]] or anything.\\
'''Creator/JohnRomero''': 'Cause I have to.\\
'''Yahtzee''': You know what? I totally get it.
-->--2017 [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa2dkKFle0 interview]]

->''This isn't a job for me, and I'll never modify my approach to protect a bottom line. If it was just a job, I guarantee I wouldn't spend every waking hour doing it. It's kind of a strange personal mission I'm on, which I happen to make money from, and that's cool. People are welcome to come along for the ride.''
-->--'''Creator/AndrewHussie'''

->"I still do some free stuff from time to time. I'll do some [=PSAs=]...And even anime in these days; it doesn't pay the bills, you can't survive off of it; but I love working in that environment, I love the people that I'm working with in that environment, I love the passion that people have for anime and I love the fans.
-->--'''Creator/SteveBlum''' in '''Podcast/VoiceActingMastery''', ''[[http://podbay.fm/show/452658730/e/1364979603 Interview with Steve Blum, part 2]]''

->"Don't make stuff because you want to make money. It will never make you enough money. And don't make stuff because you want to get famous, because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people, and work hard on those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts. Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won't. And if they don't notice, I know it's frustrating. But ultimately, that doesn't change anything. Because your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but to the gift itself."
-->--'''Creator/JohnGreen''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j22qA39eHvw "The Gift of Gary Busey"]]

->"The most personal is the most creative."
-->--'''Creator/BongJoonHo''', in his Best Director Oscar speech as translated by Sharon Choi. He attributed this quote to Creator/MartinScorsese.

->"At a very base level, Creator/{{Miramar|Productions}} is product-driven vs. profit-driven. We don't determine what the market will buy but produce what we want to, which is opposite of how most in the entertainment industry operate."
-->--'''Jan Nickman''', ''[[https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900827&slug=1089918 Seattle Times]]'' article (August 27, 1990)

->''What does Knuckles want? Where does he come from? What does he represent to Sonic? What does the Master Emerald mean to him, really?''
->When Creator/IdrisElba signed on to play a superpowered red echidna in Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}, the actor was looking to mine for backstory and identity, and find “everything that an actor needs in order to create a character and a kind of craft performance,” says director Jeff Fowler. “He was just so eager to absorb it all, and workshop him into best version of the character. Which was awesome. It was great to see how much he cared about getting it right.”

->When Creator/IdrisElba signed on to play a superpowered red echidna in Film/SonicTheHedgehog2, the actor was looking to mine for backstory and identity, and find “everything that an actor needs in order to create a character and a kind of craft performance,” says director Jeff Fowler. “He was just so eager to absorb it all, and workshop him into best version of the character. Which was awesome. It was great to see how much he cared about getting it right.”

->''That’s one of the paradoxes of Creator/CrispinGlover. He sees the world differently than just about everyone else. That allows him to bring a different perspective to the characters he plays. I don’t think you can over-estimate his contribution to Film/BackToTheFuture. If George [=McFly=] had been performed as written, the movie would have lost a lot of kinetic energy. But because Glover has a unique point of view, he’s not all that interested in making the kinds of movies that most of us want to watch. He’s built his life around making his own movies in the Czech Republic, working in LA to pay for them and touring the world to present them a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible bewildered audience.]]''

->"''MONEY?'' Who cares about money?! This is ''art'', you blockhead!!"''
-->--'''Schroeder''', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''

-->-- '''Rohan Kishibe''', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''

-->--'''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'''

-->-- '''Creator/AlexandreDumas''', ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''

-->-- '''Music/{{DMX}}''', ''X Gon' Give It To Ya''

-->-- '''Henry Longfellow''', ''The Builders''

-->-- '''{{Music/NWA}}''', "Express Yourself" - ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.

-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

-->-- '''''[[WebVideo/HalfInTheBag Half in the Bag]]''''' on Creator/BillMurray, ''Film/GhostbustersII'' rifftrack

-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KWiq3guRU&t Two Minute Papers: Finally, A Blazing Fast Fluid Simulator!]]''

-->-- '''[[Music/TheKLF Bill Drummond]]''' on why he burned £1 million of his own money

-->-- '''[[Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival John Fogerty]]'''

-->-- An elementary school teacher referring to one her students, musician Music/FrankZappa

-->-- Rosemary Breen on her brother Music/SydBarrett

-->-- '''Creator/SteveBlum''' in '''Podcast/VoiceActingMastery''', ''[[http://podbay.fm/show/452658730/e/1364979603 Interview with Steve Blum, part 2]]''

-->--'''[[https://www.you"tube.com/watch?v=Ml3EdUJJOPw George Weidman]]'''

->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''': What is it that makes you keep comin' back to making games? I'm guessing you [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} don't really need to financially,]] or anything.\\

->Did you think [[ThirdPersonPerson the great Kishibe Rohan]] draws comics because he wants money!? I draw comics because I ''want to be read!'' That's the one and only reason. I couldn't care less about anything else!

->I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

->We don't worry about money. We worry about movie.
-->--'''[[PrimaDonnaDirector Tommy Wiseau]]''' in ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'' whenever his crew suggested ways to make ''Film/TheRoom'' more cost-effectively, proving that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this isn't always a good thing]]

->'''''MONEY?''''' Who cares about money?! This is '''[[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules art]]''', you blockhead!!

->'''Jay:''' Way to be a team player, Creator/BillMurray!\\
'''Rich:''' More power to him.\\
'''Jay:''' Yeah, he has some funny stuff in this movie, but I know he didn't wanna do it, so the fact you get ''anything'' out of him is impressive.\\
'''Rich:''' He understood that the first movie [[{{Sequelitis}} did not need a sequel.]]\\

'''Rich:''' And you can hate him for that, but... he's right, and he's justified, and '''''he doesn't owe you anything!'''''\\

'''Jay:''' Sure... But... ''Film/BluesBrothers2000''?\\
'''Rich:''' Yeah, I know... I know. ''(sigh)''
-->-- '''''[[WebVideo/HalfInTheBag Half in the Bag]]''''' riffs ''Film/GhostbustersII''

->Today's faceless AAA industry rarely indulges auteurism, as throwing babies out with bath water is now so routine for big business that the babies have formed their own society in the outflow pipe. But [[Creator/JohnRomero (John) Romero's]] vision also gave us ''VideoGame/DeusEx''... Today, as long as the publishers bombard us with enough prerendered teasers, mocked-up gameplay videos, little white lies and BIG STODGY BLACK ONES to [[NeverTrustATrailer move enough units on launch day]], they have the luxury of immediately not having to give a shit what we think.

->None of [[Creator/CharlieKaufman Kaufman's]] films are blockbusters. They're too cerebral and downbeat. But they are the kind of prestige projects that major stars fight to work on, in between the parade of generic bilge that pays the poolboy.
-->--'''[[http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2015/10/fade-out-on-hollywoods-visionaries.html Christoper Loring Knowles]]'''[[note]] funny enough, Kaufman's now co-writing Film/ChaosWalking, a blockbuster movie. [[/note]]

->Imagine if {{Creator/Homer}} stopped the ''[[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]]'' because people complained that they didn't like the iambic fomat, and preferred lines of two trochees, because it was [[ViewersAreGoldfish SHORTER.]]\\\
Homer told them to jump in the lake and wrote a masterpiece, and he made it as long as he wanted it to. Now, of course, rumor is that Homer was a bunch of guys, and the only stab I have at Homer is the one that goes '[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons D'oh!]]', but you see my point.

->Let's recap: [[Music/DavidBowie Bowie]] plays to one of the largest venues in New York, goes onstage with someone far more popular than he at that specific moment in time, and plays to [[Music/NineInchNails the other guy's]] audience. Then he plays only [[ViewersAreGeniuses demanding music that his own audience does not know]]. Bowie played great and tanked. He knew he would. How could he not? And he just didn't care. He did what he wanted to do, able to withstand a stadium's worth of undeserved antipathy and indifference... More than at any other time in his career, Bowie was my hero that night. Putting himself into the mix in the exact way he wanted, hoping to be appreciated, but not depending upon it. Not having his sense of self shaken.

->''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger basically'' began as a jam session -- a couple of [[DreamTeam star designers and a manga artist]] getting together to brainstorm and seeing what they might produce. No pressure. No cynicism. No [[ExecutiveMeddling stockholders wringing their hands]] over whether having so-and-so as a hero instead of such-and-such might have a negative impact on profitability, or insisting the graphics and story [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings be changed midway through development to fit into an already-existing series]] rather than taking a chance on a new franchise.

->When I rewatch his work, these little things are the ones I'm most impressed by: he doesn't need to do them and they eat into his budget; but he stlll does them because he wants to. And it's that going above and beyond that I respect and admire.
-->--'''Every Frame a Painting''' - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ&index=1&list=UUjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A Jackie Chan - How to do Action Comedy]]''

->''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' is a follow-up to a handful of Inifinity Engine [=RPGs=] from the late-90s, picking up from where ''Franchise/BaldursGate'', ''Videogame/PlanescapeTorment'', and ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'' left off. It was made by the folks who made those games and grew frustrated with the publisher's insistence that they didn't sell well back then ''or'' now... This is a massive, beautiful, well-produced and polished game that could not have happened any other way.
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3EdUJJOPw George Weidman]]'''

->''I believe we can learn a lot from these works, and if no one watches them, then so be it. I still love doing this.''

->We realised that struggling artists are meant to struggle, that's the whole point.
-->-- '''[[Music/TheKLF Bill Drummond]]''' on why he burned £1 million of his own money

->Actually, I was given an ultimatum — basically like a slap on the wrist, like, 'You shouldn’t have made ‘Harmonium’; you should have [[ExecutiveMeddling done everything we said.]]' Meanwhile, it wasn’t supported by them, so of course I was doomed to begin with on that project. They pulled the plug on my record... So what’s the point of having an aesthetic and being an artist if you’re just some kind of puppet for a team of people that don’t necessarily know their own aesthetic? There was no other choice for me but to leave.
-->-- '''Music/VanessaCarlton''' [[http://www.expressnightout.com/2007/11/vanessa_carlton_learned_the_hard/ on her decision to leave A&M Records.]]

->I think that attitude has changed since that statement, because any kind of mainstream acceptance that's going to happen is going to happen without our doing anything, and it has been that case periodically throughout our career... we find the way that {{Music/Sparks}}' music gets a bigger audience is when we are at our most eccentric and not concerning ourselves wondering 'Does this fit in?' or 'Is this commercial?' or 'Is this going to work on a radio platform?' kind of considerations. When it's at its most extreme is when it's at its most interesting.
-->--'''[[{{Music/Sparks}} Russell Mael]]''', [[http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/WebExclusive/sparks_russell_mael on]] abandoning his pursuit of mainstream success

->Fortunately, even at 22, I thought that what mattered most was not the world’s view of me but my view of the world, and so I survived. Others did not — like [John Horne] Burns, the best of us 'war novelists.' After the press attacked his ''Lucifer With a Book'', Burns fled to Europe [[DespairEventHorizon and deliberately drank himself to death]] at 36. One must be very tough to endure as a writer in America. Since I’ve endured for almost a quarter century, I must be tough.

->I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgment of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one.
-->--'''Alastair Sim'''

->My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

->Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries.

->Theatre became a tool for me, as it still is, a tool to talk about the world. That's exactly what it is. Worth more to me than even money.

->As much as you tell yourself, 'We made the film and here it is and that is enough,' you would like to come away with something.

->I don't want to make responsible shows about lawyers. I want to invade people's dreams.

->This is my piece of FanFiction.
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman''', interviewed during filming of his ''Series/DoctorWho'' story, "The Doctor's Wife"

->[[http://vimeo.com/42372767 Make. Good. Art]]
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman''', in his intensely inspiring commencement speech to the 2012 graduates of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

->[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] is my life, and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

->Part of me said, ‘So what? You’ve got a baby. You are making a lot of money. Shut up, enjoy it; go home early; go in late; relax. You’ve had a long ten years; take a break.’ But I couldn’t. It just ate at me. It was an integrity issue. I took a lot of pride in the work. The work matters to me. I took a lot of pride in what I did on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' and the movies. I just couldn’t work that way.

->If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can [[MerchandiseDriven sell more toys]]', I'd [[GettingTheBoot kick them out of my office.]]

->We didn't make them for kids. We made them for ourselves.

->I have several problems with licensing. First of all, I believe licensing usually cheapens the original creation. When cartoon characters appear on countless products, the public inevitably grows bored and irritated with them, and the appeal and value of the original work are diminished. Nothing [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan dulls the edge]] of a new and clever cartoon like saturating the market with it... as a practical matter, licensing requires a staff of assistants to do the work. The cartoonist must become a factory foreman, delegating responsibilities and overseeing the production of things he does not create. Some cartoonists don’t mind this, but I went into cartooning to draw cartoons, [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder not to run a corporate empire.]]

->The 'fine artist'--the '''pure''' artist--says to the world: 'I didn't do this for money! I didn't do this to match the color of your couches! I didn't do this to get laid! I didn't do this for fame or power or greed or anything else! I did this for ART!' In other words: '''[='=]My art has no practical value whatsoever!'''\\
'But it's '''important!'''[='=]

->Who are the great performers in the world? I tend to believe--I ''wanna'' believe--that it's guys that have beaten their bodies up all those times and everything else. Or, is it guys like {{Wrestling/Raven}} and Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/DustyRhodes, guys that have managed to make a living by, really, just by doing the ''least'' amount they can? So I think they are a whole lot better than we are. (chuckles) I think ''we're'' the dumbasses, and they're extremely smart.
-->--'''Wrestling/TerryFunk''', ''Forever Hardcore: The Documenterary''

->This isn't a job for me, and I'll never modify my approach to protect a bottom line. If it was just a job, I guarantee I wouldn't spend every waking hour doing it. It's kind of a strange personal mission I'm on, which I happen to make money from, and that's cool. People are welcome to come along for the ride.

->It's the difference between saying 'how can I make the best work with $X' versus 'how can I make the most profitable work with $X'. Sometimes they overlap. Sometimes they don't.
-->--[[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1084315 Forum post]], discussing the remake of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''

->I believe there's a misconception that if you put a girl or a woman on the cover, the game will sell less. I know I’ve been in discussions where we've been asked to push Ellie to the back and everyone at Creator/NaughtyDog [[NetworkToTheRescue just flat-out refused.]]
-->--'''[[http://www.destructoid.com/devs-refused-to-move-ellie-to-back-cover-of-last-of-us-240444.phtml Neil Druckmann]]''', creative director of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''

->This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years... 'Why doesn't he just [[{{Creator/Gallagher}} hit fruit with a hammer?]]' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.
-->--'''Creator/BillHicks'''

->I still do some free stuff from time to time. I'll do some [=PSAs=] [...] and I'll put just as much if not more of myself into those than I do for the highest-paying gigs. And even anime in these days; it doesn't pay the bills, you can't survive off of it; but I love working in that environment, I love the people that I'm working with in that environment, I love the passion that people have for anime and I love the fans.

->When you use a song for a TV commercial, it trivializes the meaning of the song. It almost turns it into nothing.
-->-- '''[[Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival John Fogerty]]'''

->I don't know that he liked the attention, but he liked what he was doing. I always had the feeling that he was doing it for himself. That it was rather immaterial to him whether people really sat there and listened. But he was happy in what he was doing.
-->-- An elementary school teacher referring to one her students, musician Music/FrankZappa

->People would ask him to do paintings, but if he did anything, it was because he wanted to do it. He could never do a commission - performing on stage is like being commissioned and doing what you're told to do creatively. He found that difficult.
-->-- Rosemary Breen, referring to her brother [[Music/SydBarrett Syd ]] [[Music/PinkFloyd Barrett]]

-> "If you wanna make a wealthy living, you become a doctor or a lawyer, but film making is something you do just because you're obsessed."
-->--'''Creator/JamesRolfe'''

-> Don't make stuff because you want to make money. It will never make you enough money. And don't make stuff because you want to get famous, because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people, and work hard on those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts. Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won't. And if they don't notice, I know it's frustrating. But ultimately, that doesn't change anything. Because your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but to the gift itself.

->"Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things."
-->-- '''Creator/NicholasMeyer'''

->Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it.
-->--'''Creator/KirkDouglas''' to '''Creator/StanleyKubrick''' about '''Film/PathsOfGlory'''.

->Even though so many details are still hazy,\\
I really want to show you the things I've been thinking about.\\
That's really my only reason for making this game.
-->--'''Creator/TobyFox''', on ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''

->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''': What is it that makes you keep comin' back to making games? I'm guessing you [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} don't really need to financially,]] or anything.\\
'''Creator/JohnRomero''': 'Cause I have to.\\
'''Yahtzee''': You know what? I totally get it.
-->--2017 [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa2dkKFle0 interview]]

->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''': What is it that makes you keep comin' back to making games? I'm guessing you [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} don't really need to finacially,]] or anything.\\

->Who are the great performers in the world? I tend to believe--I ''wanna'' believe--that it's guys that have beaten their bodies up all those times and everything else. Or, is it guys like {{Wrestling/Raven}} and Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/DustyRhodes, guys that have managed to make a living by, really, just by doing the ''least'' amount they can? So I think they are [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop a whole lot better than we are.]] (chuckles) I think ''we're'' the dumbasses, and they're extremely smart.

-->--'''[[PrimaDonnaDirector Tommy Wiseau]]''' in ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'' whenever his crew suggested ways to make ''Film/TheRoom'' more cost-effectively, proving that [[TropesAreNotGood this isn't always a good thing]]

-->--'''[[http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2015/10/fade-out-on-hollywoods-visionaries.html Christoper Loring Knowles]]'''

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