In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
Maddy Bowen: The people back home wouldn't buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand.
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don't become a survivor intact. Survival's cost is always loss.
my unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives.
It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
