Ellen Burstyn Quotes

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

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

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

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.

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

The ballooning budgets of Bollywood are getting out of hand, and it's important for people to realise that you don't need Rs 20 crore to make a good, commercially viable film.

I never think about the budget of the film.

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.

If one makes a short film with reasonable technical finesse, it will cost between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. one lakh. That's a lot of money for someone starting off.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million to make the film." There was no way to make the thing for $2 million, so I made it for $5 million. And then, it turned out there was no way to make the thing for $5 million. That's when it got weird.

I don't spend unnecessarily. The problem with the industry is we don't budget our films. Plus, we spend bizarre amounts on marketing. If you have a good film and a good trailer, you don't need to spend so much.

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.

I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.