Quotes About Resourcefulness

I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

When a play breaks down, yeah, I've been blessed with the ability to make plays.

I've always loved fashion, but when you're broke, you're wearing whatever your dad gave you.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

You never have to change a book for budget.

The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you a suggestion and you improv your way through things.

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.

I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.