Cinema Quote by Joshua Green

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

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

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

— Clive Owen

Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

— Lulu Wang

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

— John Hillcoat

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

— Christopher Walken

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

— John Lanchester

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

If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very…

— David Lowery

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