He said the final budgets never come close to those figures.
Today, almost half the $250,000 annual budget comes from a single fund-raising dinner held each fall.
The department's budget will come down to £1.1bn by 2014-15.
Eventually everything got abandoned because the first episode's budget came to $2.2 million.
It is not clear where the university's next budget will come from.
I think our entire budget for sets and costumes came to about £1,000.
The projected budget came in at just under $4 million.
Their budgets come from a different pot, but the effect is the same.
What sent the film over the edge in their minds was that half its budget of $3.25 million, came from public funds.
Now more than half the department's budget comes from city tax money.