Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.

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

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

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.