Glenn Ficarra Quotes

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

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

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

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

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.

We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

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

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

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.

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.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

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

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

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.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

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.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.