Quotes

Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from or trade places with.

I don't make movies to please others. I make them to serve my own artistic vision.

Those who cannot do, talk or write about it. Anyone who has not made a movie to a certain standard-one that people from around the world will continue to buy for decades after they are gone-has no idea what it truly takes, not to mention physically perform anything you see in these films.

Independent filmmaking is a rare gift - the freedom to create movies whenever you want, about whatever you want, and to cast whomever you choose. It's not just making films, it's shaping worlds entirely on your own terms.

But at the end of the day, it's my film and I get what I want.

Why waste your life making someone else's dream? I make my own-no compromises, no permission, no studio telling me what it should be.