That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.
The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
