Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.

I don't like having two versions (of a DVD). People will buy the first one and not buy the second, and that's the one I want them to see.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Some of the people of color get paid their own money, and some of them don't.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.