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A low budget is uncomfortable. -- Lukas Haas
Low budget movies make lots of money. -- Orlando Bloom
I hope to always be doing some low budget things. -- Rider Strong
I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. -- Ellen Page
When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious. -- Glenn Ficarra
Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature. -- Christopher Heyerdahl
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse. -- Hector Elizondo
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. -- Yahoo Serious
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing. -- Robert Stromberg
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. -- Leslie Cockburn
I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better. -- Jason Blum
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes. -- Jason Blum
I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it. -- Katrina Law
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios. -- Griffin Dunne
Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot. -- Bill Paxton
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. -- Danny Elfman
There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity. -- Ajay Devgan
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played. -- Alanna Ubach
People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well. -- Joel Edgerton
We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it. -- Liam Hemsworth
On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together. -- Joe Swanberg
To make a low-budget independent is not easy work. -- W. Earl Brown
I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films. -- Hugo Weaving
The movie of my life must be really low budget. -- Jim Butcher
On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries. -- Lukas Haas
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play. -- Walter Koenig
I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker]. -- John Waters
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle. -- Zoe Cassavetes
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. -- James Franco
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy. -- Jean-Luc Godard
I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land. -- Ray Davies
I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places. -- Gillian Jacobs
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. -- Michael Sheen
I love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into. -- Erin Richards
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it. -- Joel Kinnaman
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules. -- Lena Dunham
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. -- Ray Manzarek
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. -- Laura Linney
It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film. -- Anne Heche
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. -- Bruce Campbell
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom. -- Jason Blum
I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started. -- Mary Lynn Rajskub
Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized. -- John Corbett
We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers. -- Zoe Kazan
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules. -- Jason Blum
When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you. -- Patrick Fabian
I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on. -- Greg Mottola
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth! -- June Diane Raphael
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made. -- Roger Corman
I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting. -- Quentin Dupieux
I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything! -- Adrienne Barbeau
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.' -- Abel Ferrara
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. -- Paul Gillmor
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume. -- Sean Young
There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money. -- Ben Wheatley
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. -- Marian Keyes
One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. -- John Carpenter
You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters. -- Mark McGrath
It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated. -- Stellan Skarsgard
I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good. -- Colin Trevorrow
One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively. -- M. Night Shyamalan
I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all. -- Spike Lee
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical. -- Amy Heckerling
After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer. -- Sienna Guillory

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