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How Does PTA Pay The Bills?

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This is something I was thinking about today considering it's been 2 years since Blood and will likely be 2 more until his next is released.  Considering that he goes between 4 and 5 years between movies and doesn't do commercials and videos in between, how much money can he possibly make writing and directing approx 2 films a decade?  How the hell does PTA pay his bills?

S.R.:
He probably pulls a Girlfriend Experience for some of the dorks here.

Kal:
He makes a couple of million per film, maybe a bit less. He probably has investments and shit that he's done over the years.

polkablues:
Plus, Maya was on SNL for like seven years and gets semi-regular film and TV work.  And it doesn't seem like they're the crazy, free-spending type.  There's no reason whatsoever that one can't live very well off a million dollars or so every few years.

socketlevel:
i've wondered this too, and i don't know first hand, but i do know a lot of film makers like politicians do public seminars/speeches. they usually make a good chunk of coin cuz of the ticket sales or it's funded by a university or whatnot.

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