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Movies are an expensive business.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

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.

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.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.