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I collect a lot of art.
I kind of like working fast.
Changing the game is a mindset.
I love working with great actors.
It's such a drag to make a movie.
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.
I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
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.
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.