Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

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.

You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

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

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

The financing of my films has always been international.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.