Quote

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.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

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 just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan.