Quotes

I always wanted to make the exact kind of films I enjoyed watching as a teenager.

I have a lot of critics who call me a bad director, but I don't think people realize that my films look like what I intended to make. I started off making the same films I enjoyed as a teenager and just never changed my tastes.

I'm definitely a control freak, anyone who wears this many hats has to be. There's a film school word for it, "auteur," which I always cringe when I hear. It's just not a word that applies to low-budget filmmaking.

If you want to make movies, go out there and do it. It's like wanting to be an actor -- you need to pursue it while you're young. Some people would rather work their way up the ladder over a number of decades, I say, just go out and make your own movie now.

I'd like to be thought of as a cult director in the same vein as John Waters.

I've always avoided being a director for hire, so I've always written the scripts to every film I've made. I don't think I've ever sold out and I've never made porn on the side.

I don't believe in failing at anything I do and every hurtle I tackle, I'll always finish, no matter how difficult the journey. I had goals at eighteen of shooting my first feature at twenty-one, having three completed by twenty-five, having one released by a major studio and buying a house before thirty. Everyone laughed at me, but I achieved every single one by twenty-eight. Not bad for being told in film school that I had no talent and should choose a different profession.