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Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.