Budgetary Limitations Quotes

Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year ... wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken

As Secretary of Defense my job would be much easier if I didn't have to put up with [budget] cuts.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

Education policy ... has not been driven by sound educational considerations. It has been driven by the budget process.

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

We are to give money of which we have to little for land of which we have too much.

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

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

The will is there; the money is not there.

The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.

The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.