Allowed Quote by Richard O'Brien

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 don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

After it was declared as an industry and legit money started coming in, actors were then given the choice of making one film at…

— Shabana Azmi

Promotions are insane! It's the toughest part about making a movie, for us actors at least.

— Sanam Saeed

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became…

— Joshua Leonard

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn…

— Kevin Smith

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is…

— Zhang Yimou

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know…

— Peter Bogdanovich

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up…

— Todd McFarlane

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle…

— Matthew Specktor

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea…

— Michael Caine

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in…

— Parker Posey