Amen

"Take a look at the chart above. If you'd invested in the Stock Market in 1997, and didn't sell your stocks, at the end of 2002 you'd be exactly where you were five years before. If you bought your stocks on margin, you wouldn't even have received any dividends. Your money would be tied up for seven years, and not only that, but you'd be worried sick about your investments everyday, by the looks of that chart; it's enough to give a man a heart attack. You may have sold your stocks and blown the money a long time ago also.

You would've invested your money in companies where nobody cared who you were and what you thought. Now, why would you invest your money in other companies if you have your own dreams, desires and plans? You should've considered investing in your own business, your own health and well-being. Sure, the stock market provides you with an opportunity to prosper off of other people's enterprise, but these companies don't really represent who you are. They're often run and owned by people for whom making a buck is all that counts. And the SEC and the US Congress, all they care about is that these companies play by the rules, but they don't guarantee that they do anything for you personally. So, if you're a filmmaker, why would you want to invest your money in giant companies that are owned by people from all over the world, people that don't even share your values, certainly not your artistic concerns."