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Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.