When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

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.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

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

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.