One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
Roger CormanI was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of youth culture, and I became more dependent upon the young people in the office and my own children.
Roger CormanFirst, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent might have one hit picture, but he won't be able to follow it up. So I look for intelligence.
Roger CormanI love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.
Roger Corman