James McAvoy Quotes

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.

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

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

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

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 used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

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

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

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.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

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.

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

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

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

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

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.