Failing Quote by Margot Kidder

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by…

— Renny Harlin

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get…

— Thom Andersen

I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?'…

— Barry Jenkins

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

— Peter Jackson

I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.

— Rudy Ray Moore

In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked off the…

— John Boorman

The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.

— Holly Hunter

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to…

— Francis Ford Coppola

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days…

— Gary Oldman

We grew up in the country, without much access to film. The fact that we didn't have any real relationship to movies made us…

— Alice Rohrwacher

We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how far we…

— William Friedkin

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

— Sydney Pollack