Quote by Marshall Thornton

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

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

— Tyler Perry

“However paradoxical it may seem, the film studio's ideal would be to produce only one film which would go on making money forever.”

— Jean Vigo

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

— Claude Lelouch

“Once upon a time, I wrote a book. People seemed to dig it, so I wrote another and one after that. That’s when Hollywood…

— Hank Moody

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half…

— Woody Allen

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the…

— Ted Demme

“This is Hollywood's dirty little secret. It's not about making movies. Are you kidding? Forget that shit about "the Dream Factory." It's about manufacturing…

— Jerry Stahl

A lot of money gets invested in making a film.

— Ishita Dutta

“What are you gonna help us with? That very tiny used condom?”

— Booth

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

— John Cusack

They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million…

— Johnny Depp