Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.

When you raise the budget, you make creative compromises. The higher the budget goes, the more cuts in your movie happen. When people talk about how movies are watered down, that's a direct reflection of money and budget. The less money you spend; the more risks you can take. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but at least you can try different stuff. The higher your budget is, the less you can do that.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

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