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Making this movie was a rapid-fire process. Our production schedule was 35 days, and we went from the first day of principal photography, on April 13, to locked, colored, scored and done in six months. That only happens when you get really lucky. We were on location with two hours of prosthetics every day, so it was very intense. But Hitchcock only had 30 days or so to make Psycho, with no money, and we were sort of in the same position. If you want to make a robot movie, they give you $100 million, but if you want to do this kind of film, they don't!
Fortunately, I came to this project from a documentary that I made and paid for myself [Anvil! The Story of Anvil\. Obviously, a documentary is different by its very nature because it's a real story, and production can unfold over a couple of years. But in terms of the energy of it, and the...