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You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

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.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

I'm still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things.

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.