A little more context for the quote: We all knew one of the commonsense edicts of Hollywood is “never invest in your own movie." But I did it anyway. -- Garry

A little more context for the quote: We all knew one of the commonsense edicts of Hollywood is “never invest in your own movie." But I did it anyway. -- Garry Marshall, My Happy Days in Hollywood [1] A few of the many well-known movies that are self-financed: Blair Witch Project, Clerks, most Robert Rodriguez movies[2], the upcoming Cloud Atlas by the Wachowskis. Self-financing might still lead to low odds of success (probably difficult to properly study this), but it seems to me there are enough success stories to question the "never" advice. [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=X3eXiLG9WnIC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=X3eXiLG9WnIC&pg=PA196&#... [2] http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/robert-rodriguez-talks-spy-kids-4-the-joys-of-self-financing-and-his-5-000-upcoming-projects# http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/robert-rodriguez-talk...