Wealth & Money Quote by Uwe Boll

Boll isn’t lamenting a lost golden age so much as savoring a power shift. The line opens with a blunt, almost gleeful diagnosis of an industry hangover: German tax-shelter money - the notorious fuel for a certain era of aggressively financed, frequently derided genre filmmaking - has dried up. Instead of dressing that up as tragedy, he pivots to the brag: he still has $80 million. It’s a flex and a warning, delivered in the plainspoken syntax of someone who knows Hollywood is less a dream factory than a liquidity problem.

The subtext is pure market logic dressed as creative prophecy. “Less major movies” is not an artistic manifesto; it’s a forecast of risk aversion. When easy capital disappears, studios and financiers retreat from big bets, which paradoxically opens room for operators like Boll who can still write checks. He positions himself as recession-proof, a survivor with ammunition.

Then comes the most revealing tell: “the price for actors will go down.” That’s not just schadenfreude; it’s leverage. Boll is arguing that scarcity will discipline above-the-title talent, making stars more “affordable” and therefore more expendable. It’s a director talking like a producer, and a producer talking like a trader: talent becomes a commodity whose value fluctuates with the credit cycle.

Context matters because Boll’s public persona has always been half filmmaker, half provocateur, daring critics to treat him seriously. Here, he’s doing what he often does best: reframing ridicule as realism, and selling cynicism as insider clarity.