The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.
It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
