What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.
There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.