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Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

— Daniel Tosh

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✓Similar Perspectives

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

— Ashton Kutcher

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

— Rob Thomas

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

— Uwe Boll

I never buy a house thinking that I'm going to sell it.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

— John Sayles

You always have that danger when you do a pilot of getting this gigantic chunk of change, and all of a sudden you're like, 'It's going to run forever, and I'm buying a house in the Hollywood Hills.'

— David Denman

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

— Jonah Hill

✗Opposing Perspectives

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

— Eli Wallach

I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.

— Sonakshi Sinha

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

— Francis Ford Coppola