You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
Not all movies are movies you want to spend $14 on - and not all movies are movies you want to spend $10 on for ultra VOD, or even $6.99 on renting.
You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.
I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.
For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.
I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.
The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.
If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
Unless any book is selling 30 million copies, like 'Fifty Shades of Grey' did, the big studios are not going to make movies out of them because the cost is too high.
Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies.
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
