Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
And they’ve got all these rules: you can’t do this. If you want to do this, you got to pay extra. If you want to shoot in this bathroom, you got to pay extra. You go up these stairs, you got to pay extra.
So it was just a very — it just wasn’t a great experience. And again, this is micro-budget. We need people that are going to be able to, you know, kind of roll with some punches. Things are not always going to go exactly as planned, and we don’t have any money. You know, just like, make it up.
So I just needed people that could sort of roll with those situations. And I found the further I got from LA and Hollywood — so again, I live in Agoura Hills, which is a very, very far suburb of Los Angeles. In fact, I’m at the edge of the LA County line, and we’re almost in Ventura.
