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The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

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 it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.