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We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

— Shawn Wayans

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

— Alvin Ailey

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

— Tina Weymouth

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

— Lisa Hannigan

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

— Meg Ryan

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

— David Heyman

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.

— Penelope Spheeris

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

— Ice Cube

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

— Ben Lewin

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

— Irvine Welsh

No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.

— Jerry Della Femina

✗Opposing Perspectives

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