Janet Allem Quotes

I'm not independently wealthy.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

I don't make any money.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

The President wants to go to the moon. We hardly have enough money left in the treasury to go to Baltimore.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

It would be great to run around with the family every day, go shopping, take the children out. At my level, though, I can only afford to do that for one week maximum. Otherwise I have to eat, sleep, train - nothing else.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.

I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I'm bad with money.

If you have to make a story in 10 rupees or you know that at this stage you can get only 10 rupees then you cut down on your expenses. But when one has made four-five films one likes to broaden the horizons.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

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

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

If I can't afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don't want to have it.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.