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.
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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.
To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.