Chuck Klosterman Quotes

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.