Cinema Quote by Renny Harlin

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

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the…

— Costa-Gavras

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

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and…

— Peter O'Toole

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think…

— Matthew Lillard

The studios still had development programs for young people. Because you weren't talking about the budgets of small nations the way you are now…

— Margot Kidder

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

— Boots Riley

When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get…

— Roger Corman

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

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