Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Mathematically, it starts getting difficult with budgets beyond $100 million to recoup money on a movie with major first-dollar gross participants. First-dollar gross is fine if a movie is successful, but if it's not, participants will continue earning fees which only pushes the studio into further losses.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

For smaller businesses, their budgets are often so tight that they're really fretful about putting money into prevention because they're not sure it's a tangible investment for them.

School districts throughout the state are using the tort fund to balance their budgets because they can secretly, without voter approval, impose a virtually unlimited tax. This is a widespread practice throughout the State of Illinois. The Stephenson County cases are the first cases in the State of Illinois to successfully challenge the illegal use of the tort fund to pay salaries. [So far] the taxpayers [have] won the majority of the issues that were before the court.