Advancement Quote by Kevin Smith

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay…

— Radhika Pandit

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

My pay packet is reasonable. But I prefer doing films where I have a meaty role. The set-up of the film and the filmmaker…

— Priyamani

If your first film fails, no one is ready to put money on you any further. But if you have faith in yourself, you…

— Neha Sharma

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

— Roman Coppola

It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie stars in…

— Nicole Holofcener

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get…

— William H. Macy

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual…

— Patty Jenkins

I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through…

— Eugene Levy

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

— Campbell Scott

For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's…

— Mike Shinoda