Lexi Alexander Quotes

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

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

People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.

I never think about the budget of the film.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

Sonali Cable' is not a low budget film, it's a normal budget film.

Especially in Los Angeles you get attached to these projects and then they lie around and you wait and look for that moment in time when everything just works out - every movie that gets made here in LA is a little bit of a miracle.

Kollywood allots big budget only for commercial films. Bollywood film industry is straightforward that way. When compared to Bollywood, Kollywood is fake. They keep churning out the same films.

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

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

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.

I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.'

I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made in Hollywood.

If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.