Chris Pine Quotes

The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

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

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had to use stars. I didn't think I needed stars - Dennis Hopper was in it. I loved him. We hung out. I loved him, but his cigar budget was more than we paid for the entire budget of 'Night of the Living Dead.'

I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.

The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers.

It's an honour for the entire 'Baahubali' team to be associated with Karan Johar, since he is the biggest name in the country as a producer and director with his brand Dharma Productions.

The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

Film budgets are huge. They can afford to promote each and every song in their album.

I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I don't make tacky films.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

I want to do one or two commercial films, but also want to do off-beat movies.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does. It's so inspiring when high-quality auteurs are writing and directing those movies. That's pretty cool.

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of their big bet. But with medium and small-sized films, outside production companies and financiers often foot the bill.

I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.