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[working with actors] For years I've had the reputation of either making your career or killing you. You work with me, you die or go on to something better.

[on why he became a director] I initially wanted to work in make-up and special effects, probably from all of those years of reading Famous Monsters magazine, but it soon became apparent that you would always be between jobs and I was looking for something that would actually earn me a living. I think I became a director because that was the fastest way to get a film made on the independent side of things.

[on making low-budget vs. big budget movies] Making a film with no money or schedule is ten times harder than it is to make a big budget show where you're surrounded by a gang of super-talented people.

[getting harder to compete with big studios (1992)] It's tough when the majors start competing at the ground level that the independents are working at. I don't know what new genre the independents can come up with that the majors aren't willing to do. because, apparently, the majors are willing to do anything from scalping girls to dropping their pants. Now. they're wallowing around in the grime with the rest of us, only on a much grander scale.

[low-budget filmmaking] Making movies is never really been that much fun. The two best days of making a movie Is the day you get the financing and the wrap party. And everything between is a pain in the fucking ass. You always have to compromise. You cant do exactly what you want to do.

[how he got started directing] Well, like many kids, I dreamed of being Roger Corman - almost made it too, but really, there's only one Roger Corman, regardless of what some might think. He's definitely the perfect combination of business and art. Certainly my role model, to some extent.