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Why Kevin Costner Is Totally Comfortable with Spending $38 Million of His Own Money on ‘Horizon’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Occasionally, when an A
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  Speaker 1: list actor really believes in a project, they can't get
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  Speaker 1: others to buy into it as easily, both metaphorically and literally,
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  Speaker 1: they'll pony up their own money to finance a portion
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  Speaker 1: of the film in order to get the ball rolling.
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  Speaker 1: But Kevin Costner took that to extremes with his new
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  Speaker 1: film Horizon, an American Saga Chapter one, providing more than
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  Speaker 1: a third of the ninety million dollar budget himself, even
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  Speaker 1: admitting he leveraged his Santa Barbara home to do so.
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  Speaker 1: But Kevin, who's taken similar risk before, tells the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Reporter money has never been as important to him as
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  Speaker 1: his creative integrity, saying, I've had success that I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even dream of, But I don't want to let this
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  Speaker 1: pile of things I have, money or possessions feel so
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  Speaker 1: important to me that I can't think about what I
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  Speaker 1: do creatively. Money just doesn't inform my decisions because if
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  Speaker 1: it all goes away. I know how to work. I
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  Speaker 1: can work on a fishing boat. I can build a house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. Kevin Costner there, who probably won't have to
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  Speaker 1: dig out the carpentry tools just yet arise in an
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  Speaker 1: American saga. Chapter one just premiered to a ten minute
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation at the can Film Festival that's direct from Hollywood.