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Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

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

If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

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.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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.