Quotes About Budget

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.

I would rather be attached to well-made, big-budget films.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

I want to end austerity.

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

We went on 'Fallon' and they had like one hundred-plus employees working on one show, and it's like, I can't afford more than two employees.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

I know my market value and according to that we estimate the budget and make films.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The huge seventy-billion a year 'defense' budget

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

a "grouplet"—a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.

The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

My creative team filters the scripts before they reach me and a few others. We evaluate them, ponder over the budget, and think of various possibilities to get the viewer excited.

Sometimes, big budget movies with big stars also flop, and sometimes small films manage to win the heart of audiences. Ultimately, it is the viewer who is the king and it depends on the liking of the audiences.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

Let me put it this way: if I am the leading man of the film, and the film-maker is asking me to support him in a certain aspect so as not to burden the budget of the film, I will do whatever I can to support his vision.