Low Budget Movies Quotes

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

I started movies in 1980. I don't think anything's changed for the best. When it comes down to certain technologies and certain things that have afforded more people to maybe have a shot at making a movie or something like that, that's good. But you also end up with 50,000 times the amount of bad movies, because now anybody can make a bad movie.

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

When I did 'Memento,' independent film was where all the really good stuff was.

It's no accident that all the awards are for smaller movies. When you have $100 million in the budget for a movie, there's something obscenely wrong with the picture. But we didn't in those days, so it was fun.

I'm used to doing U.K. indie films, like, six weeks of filming, tops.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.

When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.

You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

It's kinda crazy to say, but the way Jay [Duplass] and I stay afloat, because we don't make particularly commercial fare that makes a lot of money, is that we make things cheaply and we make things small. We would kind of be afraid to go make a $100 million movie because you have to do certain things to it to have it make its money back.