Vetrimaaran Quotes

The budget of 'Vada Chennai' is nearly Rs 60 crores.

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

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

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

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.

I made 'Super' for $3 million, and that was filmed in 24 days. And that $3 million dollars went to a lot of things other than what shows up on screen. Once you get done with the unions and everything else, that's just, like, the basic cost of what you can make a movie for.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.