Dario Argento Quotes

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

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

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.

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

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.

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

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

I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

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.

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.

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.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

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.

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 have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.