Jason Blum Quotes

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

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

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

After 'Maryada Ramanna,' I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.

Making an independent film is so different.

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

See, nobody understood how we were able to make a film like 'A Room With a View' so cheaply, for about $3.2 million, and have it look as good as it did.

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

Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

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.