How A Filmmaker Puts Financial Freedom In Their Own Hands — Joston Ramon Theney

Joston Ramon Theney, Screenwriter, Author, Director, Producer: And when the movie came out it was instantly great, I mean it was instantly profitable, and one of the coolest things about it was I didn’t even release it for people to rent or purchase.

Film Courage: How much money was going into your movies when you were dealing with financiers?

Joston: We always made sure we didn’t spend more than a hundred, we never spent more than a hundred. Unless you’re shooting with massive names or if you’re shooting something that of course if it’s something that is going to use up most of the budget. I just finished working with someone who’s doing a film where it’s dinosaurs and it’s a very different thing so a lot of money is going to go toward CGI and all that stuff. But if you’re shooting the kind of movies that I shoot that rely on practical effects and things of that nature and the stars are not huge and stuff like that, I don’t believe it should go over a hundred. I believe anytime you’re going over 100 you’re really rolling…