Top 1200 Budget Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

Dolly Ki Doli' excited me because it has unique characters. Though it is a smaller film and without a big star, it is still a mainstream film.

You shouldn't think about the fate of the films. The film might succeed or fail, but your performance must be good. You should work hard for every film.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

Sometime ago, I went for a film festival in San Francisco and that's where I met film director Warren Foster and actors Robert Parham and Randy Taylor, by chance.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.

I am honored to serve on the Natural Resources and Budget Committees.

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'

Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.'

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

Every part of it is important; the film comes alive when you edit it, the film comes alive when you write it, the film comes alive when you act it, and the same with the directing. They're all the most important part at the time and that's why I enjoy doing it, because you're creating a story and every part is a very integral part of it.

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film together in terms of themes and songs for a good cinematic feel.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

I would like to say to as many people as possible that please go and see the film 'Jaana,' because we all have worked hard to make it a good film.

On an average, any short film will cost at least Rs. 60,000. Apart from film festivals, where is the avenue to get that money back?

How many people out there really set a budget?

'Gaana Bajana' gave me an opportunity to experiment with my looks. I played a tomboy in that film, a role that I hadn't essayed before. I have no regrets for having done the film.

With 'Aurangzeb,' I just knew that the film wasn't going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.

Small events and some songs and dance do not make a film. A film needs to have a proper structure and there has to be an output which would be relevant to people who watch it.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

I think for my casting of 'Pati Patni Aur Woh' the makers saw my ad film which I did for a brand and they decided to cast me in the film.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.