I'm like the king of the low-budget sequel. People ask, 'What film are you gonna do next?' 'I don't know, but it's probably got a 3 or 4 in the title.'
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.
At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.
I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
