Seth MacFarlane Quotes

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.

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.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

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

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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.

Money is a never-ending problem.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

There is never enough money for TV.

There's no shortage of projects we want to build. There's a shortage of money.

The will is there; the money is not there.

We are to give money of which we have to little for land of which we have too much.