I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.
I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.
My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
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.
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.