Cinema Quote by David Lowery

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

— Christopher Walken

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

— Kevin Feige

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a…

— Julianne Moore

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

— Alexander Payne

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies…

— Patricia Arquette

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return…

— Alex Winter

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find…

— Ajith Kumar

In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie…

— Jason Blum

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like…

— Sean Penn

If it is a good film, the audience will like it. They will take to it if it is made with a certain amount…

— Sayani Gupta

I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for the filmmakers…

— Steven Soderbergh

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third…

— Anonymous