Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.
Henry FordWhen grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody AllenThe time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.
Will RogersThrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William ShakespeareIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
Benjamin FranklinYou want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
Matthew McConaugheyBalanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas SowellYes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
Clint EastwoodBecause my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.
Tom BradyClearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle ObamaEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellYou just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.
Angelina JolieI want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
Keanu ReevesToo many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
Will RogersIn 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It’s such a liberating experience.
George LucasI cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
Taylor SwiftWatch your finances like a hawk.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin FranklinWhen I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.
Robert KiyosakiWhen I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
Matthew McConaugheyThe movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie ChanBeing a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
Jackie ChanHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
Matthew McConaugheyThe secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
George LucasI was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.
George LucasIt would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint EastwoodI just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.
Jackie ChanI worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
Anthony HopkinsI like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
Frank OceanWhen we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu ReevesIt is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John RuskinI like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
Dwayne JohnsonThere’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.
Angelina JolieGive me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
Billy GrahamI’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.
Paulo CoelhoWhen I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.
Jackie Chan‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
Clint EastwoodWe might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald ReaganEvery movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Clint EastwoodThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerI loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
Keanu ReevesI think that I know the value of a dollar.
Dolly PartonWhen I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘
George LucasLearning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George LucasFirst grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.
Ray BradburyI was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.
George LucasIt’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.
George W. BushIn America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
Jackie ChanWell, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerYou know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
John KennedyI think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
Angelina JolieI have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘
Clint EastwoodAlfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘
Clint EastwoodI like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyA penny saved is two pence clear.
Benjamin FranklinIt is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
Jackie ChanMoney often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson