John Cabrera Quotes

If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

I have always maintained that music videos and web series are opportunities for actors and technicians, who haven't been able to do films together, to collaborate and make something exciting.

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way.

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

I ended up getting to do a lot of student films - no budget: somebody just wrangled up a camera and went to shoot stuff - and it was fun. It was great.

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

I am drawn towards this new format of web series.

The Internet is a sketch show.

On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.

I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

You basically do have a TV show when you're making stuff online. You have an audience that you make stuff for regularly.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

There is going to be a 'Stargate: Atlantis' movie. Unfortunately I'll be making it by myself in my basement.

Telling someone you have a web series is the same thing as telling someone, 'On Monday, I start work at Chipotle.'

I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.