If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.