The success of the film should depend on its budget.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.
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.
To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.
To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.