Budgets Quotes - Page 22

• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Sean Young

  Movie, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  Movie, New York, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

  Cliff Stearns

  Donors, United Nations, Peacekeeping

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• The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Style, Television, Changed

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• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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• To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

  Jack Valenti

  Russia, Risk, Bosnia

  "Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

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• NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean, Years, Space

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• Budget: a way of going broke methodically

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Way, Broke

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• We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Preparation, Veils

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• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  Corrine Brown

  Fighting, Cbc, White

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• We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

  Jim Talent

  Army, Needs, Defense

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• The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

  Ted Cruz

  Agency, Nasa, Committees

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Years, Program, Medicare

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• I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Responsibility, Economy

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• But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Worry, Hot

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

  David Cronenberg

  Fun, Problem, Film

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

  Shirley Knight

  Directors, Hollywood, Dollars

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• As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

  Andrea Arnold

  Long, Way, Film

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• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Family, Debt, Size

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• To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

  Dario Argento

  Strong, Special, Trying

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Becoming One, Actors

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

  Peter Jackson

  Majority, Labor, Cgi

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

  Ellen Page

  Canada, Grew Up, Lows

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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