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Film Courage: How many times have you made a movie with credit cards?
Byron Q., Filmmaker: I’ve used my credit card in every movie, let’s put it that way. My first movie was when I actually maxed out multiple credit cards with the intention of using the credit to make the movie. I wouldn’t advise that to people because I heard a story from somebody, I think it was Justin Lin who did Better Luck Tomorrow, where he said he maxed out his credit cards. I thought it was a cool story so I was like I’m going to do the same thing but in practice that was definitely not a good choice.
I don’t know if you guys have had that experience but when you can’t pay off the credit cards and you start having the credit card companies trying to come after you and it ruins your credit for a little bit. Luckily I took care of it not too long after that but it is not a good choice for me.
Film Courage: When I was younger I had a…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Byron Q is a Chinese American writer/director originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His first film Bang Bang won the Best 1st feature jury award at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film went on to gain a cult following within the Asian American street culture. His last feature, Las Vegas Story, starred Eric Roberts, is distributed by Indie Rights. He is repped by Housefire Management. Byron recently completed a successful $25,000 Kickstarter campaign for a short sci-fi film entitled Killing of a Machine which plans on using Virtual Production workflows and Unreal Engine.
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