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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

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.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

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.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.