Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
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.
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.
I love films that are made with almost no budget.
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