Film Quote by Renny Harlin

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to…

— Bruce Beresford

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule…

— Renny Harlin

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

— Richard Linklater

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

— Sheryl Lee

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

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

I think it can be difficult to get funding for a film, but I was lucky.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that…

— Karyn Kusama

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad…

— Philippe Falardeau

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

— Errol Morris

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

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money…

— Atom Egoyan