You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.
There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.
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.
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
I love films that are made with almost no budget.
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.