ABSTRACT
Godard's quote provides a useful directive to producers to let their budget dictate their aesthetic. The producers understand there is no movie without money. Sooner or later they have to have it, enough of it, in a bank account, ready to be spent. A producer cannot make a movie without money. Money has to be raised. It can come from a wide variety of sources. It can be a very large amount or an extremely small one. It often comes with strings attached. Over the life of a production money is spent in varying amounts and in a great variety of ways. An investor is someone with money or access to it. The two most frequently used business entities in the production of independent motion pictures in the US are the Limited Partnership (LP) and the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). On the other end of the spectrum, a sole proprietorship is a business entity centered on the individual.
