Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it's been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they'll always be, but they'll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.