Beeban Kidron Quotes

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

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

The financing of my films has always been international.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

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

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of their big bet. But with medium and small-sized films, outside production companies and financiers often foot the bill.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

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

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

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.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

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.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

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.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

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

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.