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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.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

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 think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

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.

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?

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

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.