51 Low-Budget Quotes for You to Enjoy

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. Ray Manzarek

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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

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I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I should have. I didn't know a thing about the script. I wasn't told anything. I heard it was a low-budget film, and my agent told me to do it. I was super-ignorant to it. Ashton Sanders

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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

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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

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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

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts. David Knopfler

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

We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude. Dean Devlin

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Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style. Duke Johnson

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I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. Ellen Page

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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. Fisher Stevens

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me. Gavin Hood

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When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that. George A. Romero

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When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious. Glenn Ficarra

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I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films. Hugo Weaving

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I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie. James Gunn

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I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film. James Wan

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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. James Wan

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My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it. James Wan

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'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud. Jason Blum

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What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision. Jason Blum

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