The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

I'm never at a loss for new projects.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.