I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
I kind of like working fast.
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
It's such a drag to make a movie.
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.
You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
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.
