In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French… — Manuel Valls Copy Share Image
In the U.S. box-office driven industry, if you want to do a smaller personal film, you have to find your own financing. — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm struck by the fact that by and large equity capital doesn't play a big role in new financing; it's either bonds… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script… — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
I'm considered to some degree a successful director working in Hollywood, making films my way but using studio financing. But with almost… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day -… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
This is the first global crisis that doesn't start in poor countries and it was caused by the rich countries. So it's… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls,… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I want studios to be financing director-driven, auteurist cinema, as they did in the '70s. I think it's starting to happen now.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're… — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
Modeling was a way of financing my fighting. My fighter friends definitely made fun of me: 'I've seen you in your underwear,… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it… — George Ratliff Copy Share Image
Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I had to put the company through a reorg, raise a new round of financing, and sort of press the restart button.… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image