Quotes About Resourcefulness

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Necessity creates everything in my life.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

Because it's not always possible to shoot with a live piglet, I had to create a piglet. I went abroad and enquired about the parts, which cost almost as much as a big actor's remuneration. I decided to go for an animatronics piglet, which is a new technology.

Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one that creates even more value from what we already have and know.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

This script was like a dish made from things you'd found in your larder and had to use up before they went off: a Welsh mountain, a casino, a blonde with a big bust.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My

Nu face nimic dac? n-ai cap; p?l?rie s? ai.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

If she'd had enough thread, she could've crocheted the Taj Mahal.

Magick isn't every answer. A body must know how to fend for himself without it as well. A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.

beautifully wrapped. She reached for her tape, pulled the end—and got the sliver left on the roll.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.