Sean Baker Quotes

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

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

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

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

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

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

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

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.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

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

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

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

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

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Um, 'Soul Food'... Another wonderful little movie that could. Here's a film that, I think our budget was maybe $6 million. We shot it in Chicago in six weeks. I was so proud of the film, because it showed America that an African-American film about family could sell, could do well, could cross over and have true meaning.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.