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I'd like to enter in and out of that big budget world, rather than staying in it. It's not the case that the bigger the film, the better it is.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

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.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

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 prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Movies are an expensive business.