Nikita Thukral Quotes

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

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

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

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

It's hard to get movies made.

Movies are an expensive business.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

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

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

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.