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Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

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

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

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.

You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit; wouldn't that be a better bet? Evidently not.

Every film is hard to fund.

Movies are an expensive business.