Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

Health care is the Pac-Man of the budget.

To make an entire country as big as America aware of a movie costs so much money.

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

I don't think profit margins are great when you're giving away free tickets!

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.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.

Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

Music videos are really expensive, and if I mess it up, it's like, 'Oh, there goes 15,000 dollars,' you know?

Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

I'm a cheap date.

'Housefull' is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

Every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production, and the customer ends up paying it when he buys the product. It’s a hidden sales tax.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.