Annie Leibovitz Quotes

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

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.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has significantly more leverage than money in terms of how much energy you get out of time.

Why take the pay-per-view gamble? I don't need to do that.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

People will always want a free lunch.

I tend to 'splurge' for convenience. I'll pay a lot to not waste time.

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

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.

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.

Before purchasing a fixer-upper property, make sure to look at the numbers. It is easy to become emotionally attached to a house, and buyers can lose sight of the true costs of the renovation work.

You have to spend a lot of money to build strong sides.

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

When you're spending $100-plus million dollars, you need to give the audience what they want.