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" I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels. "

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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "

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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "

" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "

" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "

" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "

" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "

" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "

" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "

" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "

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" It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often. "

" 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. "

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

" I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' "

" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "

" You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle. "

" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "

" Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. "

" A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better. "

" I collect a lot of art. "

" Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium. "

" I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country. "

" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "

" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "

" Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything. "

" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "

" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "