Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

If one makes a short film with reasonable technical finesse, it will cost between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. one lakh. That's a lot of money for someone starting off.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

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 tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.