There Was Never Any Down Side To

You Can Have 10 Bucks To 10 Million Bucks And If You Got A Crew, Imagination And A Lot Of People Willing To Turn In Some Work Next To Nothing, You Going To Have A Feature. But You Can't Get Beyond How Expensive Marketing The Movie Is, It's So Crushing.

Other Filmmakers Make Their Movies And Put Them Out And That's That. For Me, For Some Odd Reason, It Goes Deeper Than That.

Everybody's Got One Killer Story. It Doesn't Take Talent To Tell That Story, It Just Takes Experience.

Don't Be Afraid To Do Weird Stuff, So Long As You Do It Cheaply And Cover Everyone's Bets. Be Bold. Be Stupid, If You Have To: So Long As You Don't Hurt Anybody, What's It Matter How Dopey Your Dream Is? If I Hadn't Made Tusk? If I'd Let It Die As A Podcast? I Wouldn't Have Three Other Movies I'm Now Making Within The Span Of A Year. Some Folks Will Try To Shame You For Trying Something Outside The Norm; The Only Shame Is In Not Trying To Accomplish Your Dreams.

For Years, My Job Was To Make The Movie Inexpensively. And I Could Bring It In. What I Can't Control Are The Costs Of Marketing.