Kyle Gass Quotes

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.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.

When 'Mortal Kombat' came out, I was living in an apartment in the Venice Canals in L.A. I didn't get paid a huge amount of money, so I had a nice apartment, but I couldn't afford to have it furnished. It was kind of like Robert De Niro's apartment in 'Heat': It looked like I was ready to walk away from it in ten seconds, because there was nothing.

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

'Housefull' is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with.

The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.

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.

I think the reason why video games are more popular as entertainment in difficult economies is that the cost per hour of video games is lower than any other form of entertainment.

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.

Every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production, and the customer ends up paying it when he buys the product. It’s a hidden sales tax.

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

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie stars in movies these days. And of course, I would like to have more than $3million to make it. But, again, if that's what I was offered I wouldn't turn it down. I guess studios know that. But I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess.

When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.