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.
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And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.