Miguel Sapochnik Quotes

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

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

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

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

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

When you're producing, you're really just making a series of decisions.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

Spend 10% of the project budget making sure you understand problem, the key technologies involved, and have looked at all of the options before you dive into the detailed design.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start