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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.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.
I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.
I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.
Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.
When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.
The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.
Manchester City is the richest club in the world. They work to a budget that no one else works to, so they can write their own rules.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.
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.
Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.
The professionalism and everything is same in both the industries. The only difference between Bhojpuri cinema and Bollywood is budget.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.
Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.
I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.
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.
Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.
I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
If you want to go high-end, that's great, but my dream has always been to make fashion affordable enough so you're not limited by your budget.
I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.
I'd like to enter in and out of that big budget world, rather than staying in it. It's not the case that the bigger the film, the better it is.
When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
As a model, I look at clubs like Brighton and the success they've achieved gradually on a sustainable budget. I want to take a similar approach.
Addressing budget issues is usually a balancing act in which cuts are weighed against revenue increases to find the best solution for the state.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.