You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
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.
To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.
It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.
There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.
