Top 1200 Budget Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way about a film called 'Lay the Favorite' that I made with Stephen Frears. I did that because the character was a real leap for me. The film doesn't quite all add up internally, but I feel very proud of what I did on it.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

You can serve good food on a budget provided you don't waste it.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it.

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.

'Avunu' is a thriller, suspense film set within a small family with a good mix of scary and funny moments, but not a horror film.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Music is definitely cheaper and more immediate. But part of the draw of film to me is the multidisciplinary aspect. I always enjoyed film writing.

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.

The Hindi film that I recommend is 'Ijaazat.' It is my most favourite film; it is a poetry in itself, and Gulzar Sahab is somebody I am a huge fan of.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?

TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that.

It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

I did a film called 'Nightfall,' based on Isaac Asimov life, which was directed by an American director. However it was a short film.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.

Help me find more money in my budget!

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Budget for 2015 provides for 11.7% expenditures growth

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

If you don't like a film or do a film out of obligation in a comfortable zone, it would be very painful, but when you do something with passion, interest, and belief in it, it excites you.

Zero budget filmmaking is frustrating but also liberating.

'Tangerine' being my fifth film, I was out of favors. I couldn't afford to get the Arri Alexa or RED cameras and I definitely couldn't shoot on film.

If this film has come out so well, the credit goes to Trivikram garu. This one is a 100 percent director's film. He is the real hero of 'A Aa.'

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

Low budget movies make lots of money.