Quotes About Budget

Big budget. Really? If you are in a horror flick, it's almost certainly alien or satanic in nature. But it's more likely that you've made the common mistake of misdiagnosing a "psychological thriller" as a horror movie. If so, heed this advice: If you're looking for your child, he/she probably never existed. Also: your husband did it.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

observed that two weeks earlier, when the House Republicans and I had issued sharply contrasting budget proposals, with profound implications for the nation, the news had instead been dominated by talk of my birth certificate. I noted that America faced enormous challenges and big decisions; that we should expect serious debates and sometimes fierce disagreements, because that was how our democracy was supposed to work, and I was certain that we had it in us to shape a better future together.

Worse yet, my administration was deporting undocumented workers at an accelerating rate. This wasn't a result of any directive from me, but rather it stemmed from a 2008 congressional mandate that both expanded ICE's budget and increased collaboration between ICE and local law enforcement departments in an effort to deport more undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

It's an unflattering portrait of the American public. Either we are babies, unable to grasp that budget cuts will inevitably reduce funding to programs we support; or we are mulish, irrational children, who understand the math but refuse to accept it.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.

If you don't have a basic spend on marketing, there is no point releasing the film in theatres.

If a hurricane came here, I would want any relief plan to be fiscally responsible.

If it was up to me, I would have put more money into the state fiscal relief.

I work independently of the director, and to some extent, that's actually a big relief to them. When I come to them in post-production, they're tired and over-budget. What can be better to them than presenting a full score totally gift-wrapped?

People need permanent tax relief.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.