You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.
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You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.
You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.
Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.