#financing

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#elected #elected officials #elections #financing #going

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#film #financing #fire #fox #french

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #businesses #characterized #companies #costs

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#american #american public #because #between #entrepreneurs

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. ↗

— John Foster

#american #combine #curious #direct #directors

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#apart #called #completely #eventually #everything

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. ↗

— Claire Danes

#collapsed #filming #financing #flora #had

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#because #before #business #done #financing

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #based #could #financing #go