In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'
I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.
