One of the great myths about Hollywood is that the only people who get money for filmmaking are people who work for a studio, people working for directors or people in production. People usually think that any small films they make are self financed, because any small piece of that, even the smallest part of that is a big number in Hollywood. But that’s not true: for a film it takes years of work to get money. When you’re making a film, you have to think about the logistics and the people who are going to want to come and see it, the people who’ll spend the money. So it takes a long time – and you don’t get money that easily.
We thought the film’s going to pay for itself, especially in the UK – there was obviously a lot of excitement among the movie-going public in particular. But you have to remember, that’s why there are so many independent films – everybody who isn’t doing a movie for a film studio likes making them – and the films have to survive on the kind of interest of the public when a movie arrives at the cinema and the box office numbers go up.
The movie has to survive on the way films do: by showing people something new and different about what is currently going on in the world.
Did you think you’d have to work at it for three years, or four years?
A couple of weeks when I was editing this film, I was in London and I went to see the new James Bond film (Spectre), and I realised that it had made a total of £2.5 million or so in the United Kingdom, which is about an average of about £20 million in the US.
I thought: “There is money. There was a documentary a few years ago about how James Cameron made Avatar on a shoestring. That film made $750 million internationally. You have got to work at it. What you do is you can make it look like a documentary and make it work at the box office and get a lot of publicity but it’s just a film that’s going to make you a lot of money.”
You have a budget of about $10 million [for A Simple Plan].
It’s a big budget. It was a little bit bigger than I think I’d ever produced, but it was on budget and not an impossible budget for any director to make, because if they were just doing an indie film, they might not have had a budget at
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