Limits can be fun and too many resources can be harmful.
Constraints drive innovation and forces focus. They are to be embraced, not removed.
says David Heinemeier Hansson on the 37Signals weblog. To explain this he uses the decline of Star Wars movies as an example and quotes a comment from Slashdot:
No the problem is money. Lucas has way too much of it. Especially for the first film [New Hope] there was a severe budget crunch. They were limited in both money and time. I think this forces a film team to make decisions that in the long run are good for the film. If you have no boundaries, you are more likely to throw in little bits that really have no business being in the movie. If you are limited, you are forced to trim the fat and leave the good bits. With the prequels, Lucas had no limits. He effectively had infinite money and time in which to make these films. As a result he wasn’t forced to REALLY think about which parts worked to help the film and which didn’t.
Yeah, that about says it.
