Kurt Sutter Quotes

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

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

Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices.

Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.

I never think about the budget of the film.