Katrina Law Quotes

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

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.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

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.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a tradition of British cinema.

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

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.