Thomas Ian Nicholas Quotes

TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that.

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.'

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

My buildings are all on budget.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

If we do another 'Deadpool,' we'd love to have more money for visual effects. But I don't think anybody does good with an excess of time or money.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.

A budget is not an issue. I mean a budget is used if you need more weeks or more time or more elements, but the creative process is exactly the same. In some instances you become more of a boss when you are doing a small movie. So that is not so relevant. The only thing is that the bigger a movie is in terms of budget, is that there are more people giving opinions.

If you make payroll every time, everyone will be satisfied with your budget regardless of how bad it is.

How can I run an agency at the same time?

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

A behemoth budget does not mean there is much discretion in allocating it.

Budget drives everything that we do.

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.