Kurt Vile Quotes

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

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

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.

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

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

Money is not all in life, and not in football, but it's quite important, and to have the lowest budget in the league means to finish in the top 10 may be an even bigger result.