Harry von Zell Quotes

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

You never have to change a book for budget.

My buildings are all on budget.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

With your permission, I am going to ask Carol Hartwell from the Budget Committee, who is our staff expert on this to sit with me. In the event you are overly inquisitive, I will have to ask her for answers.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

I don't spend unnecessarily. The problem with the industry is we don't budget our films. Plus, we spend bizarre amounts on marketing. If you have a good film and a good trailer, you don't need to spend so much.

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

I never think about the budget of the film.

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can.

The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have a need for such a tool.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.