I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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.
I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.
I love films that are made with almost no budget.
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.
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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.