James Marsh Quotes

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

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

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

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

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

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a business. You want everyone to make money.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

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

I've never made a film that lost money.

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.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

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.

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.

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.'

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.