How to Use self-finance in a Sentence

self-finance

verb

• Gibson’s gamble to produce and self-finance the movie clearly paid off.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Talk to me about the decision to self-finance, produce and then license the special.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• The enterprise is being self-financed by the two brothers and their families without loans.
  — Gary Stern, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Michael Sheen is self-financing a new national theater in his native Wales.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
• Bigger businesses could find ways around these ceilings, or simply self-finance their projects; smaller ones and entrepreneurs were stuck.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Steele’s path, build the audience, self-finance the growth, and then prove it in front of everyone is the norm, not the exception, for founders like her.
  — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Scott is the wealthiest senator in office and has the ability to self-finance his campaign.
  — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The independent startup is being self-financed by its partners.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• The collection is self-financed and will launch at the Chicago Collective.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• They are independently managed and self-financed and were not included in the court filing.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Francis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
• All of these upgrades were self-financed as the company acted because worker wellbeing and long-term resilience made business sense.
  — Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• The team opted to self-finance the initial development, a process that took approximately two and a half years from concept to consumer launch.
  — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Ford is self-financing the film and plans to find a buyer after production is complete, according to Deadline, which broke the news of the project.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
• The film carries a $120 million budget, which was mostly self-financed by Coppola.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
• Stuart noted that the project is self-financed by the fiscally-responsible company.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
• The filmmaker self-financed his own projects at Universal, and was known for his work with producer Jason Blum.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• For example, Theo Von and David Spade wrote and self-financed a buddy comedy starring the two of them.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
• Such high-quality ingredients and top-tier culinary talent inevitably come at a cost – especially when owners choose to self-finance.
  — Lela London, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• But while ripoffs and dodgy reboots are common in horror, some of the weirdest unauthorized sequels are the result of an obsessed fan self-financing a tribute to their favorite movie.
  — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
• The fact that the Trumps could have easily self-financed the $30 million needed to launch, but chose against it, underscored why no one else wanted to either.
  — Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• The campaign of Trone, the wealthy co-founder of the Total Wine & More retail chain, is almost entirely self-financed.
  — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
• Two years later, Tarsem self-financed the film’s release in partnership with Roadside Attractions.
  — Leila Jordan, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
• Parochial schools and individual parishes, which the archdiocese said are independently managed and self-financed, will not be affected.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Still, the growth is entirely self-financed and independently owned by Nguyen, who left behind a career in finance to pursue her passion for hospitality.
  — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
• While large firms can self-finance AI adoption, smaller firms may struggle to secure necessary capital with restrictions on outside investment.
  — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• As for financing, Ford had been talking to several studios but ultimately decided to self-finance the film and shoot on his own terms, with plans to take it out to market after production has ended.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
• The report claims Cherfilus-McCormick first won a special election in 2022 with a campaign that presented itself as self-financed.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2026
• It should be noted that taxpayers’ dollars are not involved with the cost of the renovations because the Fed is self-financed, supporting itself on income from its holdings of Treasury bonds.
  — Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026
• Segura wrote, self-financed and produced the pilot before selling it to Netflix, which is producing the full series later this year and releasing it in 2025.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024