Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
Mountain Man: You ever had your balls cut off you fucking ape?
Grace: I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world.
Lady Eboshi: Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
Marian Wyman: Are you cheating Ralph? Dr. Raplh Wyman: No, Marian. You cheat. Remember?
Stuart Kane: Ah, Christ! That's my half supply.
You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.
Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.
