Jon Watts Quotes

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.