Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

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.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

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.

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

When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.