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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.