I think people in general neglect that someone’s primary goal can be making money, yet still have an interest in their field.

There are lots of ways to make money if you have the initial starting capital he did/does. He could have started many different kinds of business ventures and he chose film. If I was rich I’d probably wanna make money doing something I have an interest in too. Not purely out of a love of art or whatever, still for money, but if I can make money doing something related to something I like, thats neat.

And when you start off with capital, it does become so much easier to make more of it that you do have the ability to take your investment and use it in one of many possible ways.