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To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.