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The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
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A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
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When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
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Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
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People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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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.'
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I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.
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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
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If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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It's such a drag to make a movie.
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When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
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Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
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I kind of like working fast.
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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.
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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.
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I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.
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People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
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For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
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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.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
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