You're putting all this money on credit cards, you're taking this huge risk. All these people are working for you for nothing, they could leave at any second. But you really have to be incredibly focused, and really have an incredible sense of purpose. If you have that, then people really will stick with you and that's what I discovered. Just because you have a script that fits the low budget definition and a few credits cards does not mean you can make a film.
Movies are a lot more complicated to produce than they appear, Hollywood just makes it look easy.
It's being willing and able to do 18 hour days everyday. Seven days a week of asking people to do you favors and to give you free things. Calling in every chit you have, and a lot of people aren't willing to do that. There's a formidable amount of aggression that you have to do to go beg for stuff. That's the easy part.