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I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films. -- Hugo Weaving
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle. -- Zoe Cassavetes
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. -- Michael Sheen
I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places. -- Gillian Jacobs
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules. -- Lena Dunham
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it. -- Joel Kinnaman
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. -- Bruce Beresford
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot. -- Roger Corman
I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. -- Dean Cain
What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically? -- Lance Henriksen
I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films. -- Marcia Gay Harden
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett. -- Robert Stromberg
A low budget is uncomfortable. -- Lukas Haas
Low budget movies make lots of money. -- Orlando Bloom
To make a low-budget independent is not easy work. -- W. Earl Brown
On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries. -- Lukas Haas
I hope to always be doing some low budget things. -- Rider Strong
The movie of my life must be really low budget. -- Jim Butcher
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
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
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 love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into. -- Erin Richards
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
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 have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom. -- Jason Blum
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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