On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.