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.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

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.

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.