Chingon Quotes
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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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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 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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It lighting the set up is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.
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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.
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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.
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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.
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Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
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Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
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Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
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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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There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
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Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.
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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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I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
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Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
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Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
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For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
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That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
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Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
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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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I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.