Debbie Allen Quotes

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.

We are to give money of which we have to little for land of which we have too much.

Because the resources available to the U. S. military will be increasingly limited, the objectives must be too.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.