Financing Quote by Claire Danes

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

— Richard Linklater

While I was at film school, or even earlier, maybe the late 1980s, the market for independent-film production collapsed, and existing funding for long-form…

— Hito Steyerl

I was doing a couple of films which got shelved a week before the shooting was supposed to start.

— Saqib Saleem

For most of my films, I've had to go out and start shooting before I could get the rest of the funding. That was…

— Steve James

I've seen it happen with other directors. Sometimes there's a period where, if they're lucky, they get the financing where they can make two…

— James Ivory

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had…

— Martin Scorsese

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never…

— Renny Harlin

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather…

— Irvine Welsh

I think it can be difficult to get funding for a film, but I was lucky.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

— Robert Rodriguez

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I…

— David Selby

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

— Liam Hemsworth