On considering dropping out of the Green Hornet film (August 19, 2004): "Right after Jersey Girl came out and kind of underperformed, I was just like, `I got no business making large-budget movies.` I should always make movies that cost less than 10 milli...
Kevin Smith
...if you get a bunch of cynical people making a big-budget Hollywood movie, the irony is it doesn`t work. [referring to his experience with `The Last Action Hero`]
Zak Penn
[speaking in 1979] "The kind of acting I used to do no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they`ll understand it in Milwaukee.
Dirk Bogarde
It`s not really what I`d call a movie. I was stunned that Miramax wanted to buy it. I mean it`s really rude. It showed me in a really bad light. It`s also shoddily made. It`s cobbled together. -- expressing surprise that a low-budget documentary of his ba...
Russell Crowe
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot...
Michael Mann
In an ideal world, I`d bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it`s like having a big...
David Yates
I think there`s a kind of pretentiousness to the idea that serious work is only found in low-budget independent movies-I can`t stand that snobbery.
Christian Bale
The triangle on my chest represents the divinity of myself and others. The band around my arm represents the creative essence of life in a swirl of positive and negative forces. - explaining the symbolism of two of her tattoos in Budget Living Magazine
Joan Jett
I want to do so much more, not huge budget films necessarily, but I just want to play different parts and I only want to do the stuff that I want to do. I don`t want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in I read it and ...
Alison Doody
Soon, a hundred million dollars is going to be a normal budget for an action picture. That size picture is in the works at every studio. (Precognitively, after seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), USA Today, August 1, 1991).
Renny Harlin
I just didn`t want to work on that movie in the type of environment that was being created because of the needs of the budget. I do charity work, but I don`t do charity work for major studios.
Russell Crowe
On visiting the White House: I`d like to think that I`ve always left the White House with more than I arrived. Not only budget commitments, cutlery, silverware, candelabras, one or two Bush family photos... OK, one Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washin...
Bono
I like to diversify. And I am all about longevity. I want to be doing this for as long as I can. I have made, I think, 72 pictures now. And I have made a lot of studio stuff and I have made a lot of low-budget stuff. The fun of making independent films is...
Michael Madsen
And life has taught me that if I am to have a satisfying career, I have to take three things out of the mix. The first is the size of my part. The second is the size of the budget. And the third is the size of my salary. Once you get rid of those things, ...
Kevin Bacon
Daddy had got us rooms in a motel until he could find us a house. There were not a lot of places available for a young family on our budget. Daddy went around to dozens of places. Nobody wanted kids. Finally, he found one in the hills south of Glendale. A...
Debbie Reynolds
On working with Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York (2002): "He`s a perfectionist, obsessed with detail. That`s why he went over budget and over schedule."
Leonardo DiCaprio
If you do a film with a high budget, people want to control it. Marketing people tell you what to do, and where to cut, so they can get their money back. I am more interested in doing smaller films that I can control.
Fernando Meirelles
I`m going to do some big film at some point but not now. My ideal career would be to do what Pedro Almodovar does (in Spain). I`d like to make Brazilian films for international audiences that are not big-budget. This would be the best.
Fernando Meirelles
I`ve always thought as an actor, I`m not very clever about that, not very clear on it. My choices aren`t about `OK, if I choose this film, that will let me carry on,` you know. Whether it is a big budget movie or a small budget movie, that isn`t part of m...
Ewan McGregor
I`ve always thought as an actor, I`m not very clever about that, not very clear on it. My choices aren`t about `OK, if I choose this film, that will let me carry on,` you know. Whether it is a big budget movie or a small budget movie, that isn`t part of m...
Ewan McGregor
My biggest mistake, going back to The Truman Show, was that I wrote my most expensive film first. And you just shouldn`t do that. I remember talking to the studio head at the time and she said, There`s no way for a first film that we`ll give you a budget ...
Andrew Niccol
This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.
Senator John Kerry
