Darren Boyd Quotes

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.