Carey Mulligan Quotes

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

After 'Maryada Ramanna,' I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

With an independent movie, it's like, 'Okay I know what I want, and I got to go for it.' I just got to get the A version of this. Occasionally we'll try a B version, but not often. We'll just get what's scripted and try to do that as best we can, so you sort of edit while you shoot an independent movie.

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.