Cinema Quote by Kari Skogland

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

— Christopher Walken

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

In a small budget film, coming from an independent filmmaker, it is not possible financially to get a wider reach unless we get government…

— Sanjay Mishra

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

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

— Joel Kinnaman

You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a…

— Debra Granik

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

— Chloe Sevigny

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry…

— Abhay Deol

Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers.…

— John Landis

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