Movie Finance Quotes & Sayings

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. — Sepp Blatter

Shitty weather. You wonder how people can raise the strength to go out and kill one another. — Hakan Nesser

People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a ... "simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big. — Eric Fellner

I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing." — Scott Foley

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. — Tim Ferriss

I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people. — Jodie Foster

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie. — Martha Plimpton

Just as you do not need to be a director to detect a bad movie, you do not need economics, finance, or any other abstruse special knowledge to distinguish between good and bad strategy. — Anonymous

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government. — Uwe Boll

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. — Roger Ebert

I'd rather try everything than try nothing. — Jonathan Heatt

Video gives people a voice. — Chad Hurley

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money. — Rob Thomas

Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech. — Cassandra Clare

Hours passed. A man came by twice and poked his head into my theater and looked at me questioningly. The third time, he came in and sat next to me and asked, "How many times you plan on watching this crap?" I shrugged my shoulders. He was wearing corduroy pants, and I would have liked to drag my fingernail across his thigh. "You hiding?" "I'm just sitting here," I said. "Yeah, never mind," he said. "I guess you're a bit young for that. What about your folks? — Justin Torres

Parenting. It ain't for sissies. — Harlan Coben

About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing! — Flea

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. — John Walker Lindh

The Necromancer's Tower squatted over the river like an incontinent titan. — Yahtzee Croshaw

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. — Sarah Jessica Parker