Actors Quote by John Sayles

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it…

— Richard Linklater

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

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

— Christopher Walken

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is,…

— Edward Burns

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

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

— Martin Freeman

A lot of money gets invested in making a film.

— Ishita Dutta

I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors…

— Kevin Kline

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

— William Friedkin

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within…

— Rohit Shetty

I'm always running around trying to raise money to make the films. Fortunately, I've been able to do that, but if I can't, at…

— Rob Reiner