Irvine Welsh Quotes

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

The financing of my films has always been international.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.

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

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

I won't claim that I know it all, but I do know how much money is involved in making a Kannada movie. I've done my homework.

When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.