Budgets Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.

  Toby Young

  Home, Differences, America

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• Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Mean, Wyoming

  "Senator Barrasso and Rep. Van Hollen on 'State of the Union'". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 1, 2011.

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• If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

  Max Brooks

  War, Epic, Giants

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• I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Years, Done, Avocados

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• Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

  Brian Baird

  Taken, Cutting, Thinking

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• It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

  Bryan Brown

  Art, Stars, House

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

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• Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

  Edward Burns

  Independent, Actors, Shooting

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

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• As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

  Evan Bayh

  Cutting, Eight, Indiana

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• The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Past, People

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• When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

  Monica Bellucci

  Differences, Cameras, Bigs

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• In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

  Paul Bettany

  Opportunity, Europe, America

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• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Safety, Long

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• Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, Today Is The Day, Years

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

  2 Chainz

  Labels, Get Money, Type

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

  Joan Chen

  Shooting, Film, Lowest

  "INTERVIEW: A Long Way from Twin Peaks, Joan Chen Gets Sent Down for 'Xiu-Xiu'". Interview with Augusta Palmer, www.indiewire.com. May 6, 1999.

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• Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

  John Corbett

  Looks, Done, Kind

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• I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

  P. Chidambaram

  Thinking, Labels, Should

  "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

  P. Chidambaram

  Agency, Views, People

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• One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

  Roger Corman

  Trying, Film, Ends

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• When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

  Roger Corman

  Matter, Today, Film

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