It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

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.