I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

[The hard times aren't over, Affleck cautioned.] Ultimately it's hard (to make a movie), especially with a low budget, ... He's not going to see his wife and kid or be able to sleep.

Low budget movies make lots of money.