Your film must be a done deal. Only the journey is negotiable.

The mentality for our feature was always that we were going to make the film, no matter what. There was never this thing where we were going to write the script and then wait till someone gave us the money. It was always we’re going to make it, and here’s the starting date. If we get the money we’ll make it bigger. If we don’t get the money we’ll shoot it with our cellphones.

Our philosophy was whatever we did, we had to proceed with absolute certainty. That was probably crazy, but it had an effect. Money sort of follows determination. It was a big group of us and we were all very determined. A lot of miracles happened, but I think they happened because we were charging so quickly that it was almost like a boat shooting through the water. We created the current and the momentum.