Box Quote by Brian Stelter

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million or $40 million.

— Brian Reitzell

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

— Dirk Benedict

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money…

— Penelope Spheeris

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn…

— Kevin Smith

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error…

— Robbie Coltraine

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat…

— John Cusack

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent…

— Emile Hirsch

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity…

— Haile Gerima

Many indie movies are fighting for survival in a world full of 'Micro-Budget' films and 200 Million dollar 'tent-pole' blockbusters. Surely there is room…

— Ti West

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a…

— Sunny Deol