Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

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

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.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.