Jon Watts Quotes

When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

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• When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Movie