There is an excellent article by Eli Roth over at Mediaite talking about his years as a filmmaker.  It's really long but it's worth reading the whole thing.  It's fascinating seeing how far he was willing to go to get his movies made.  Any other creative person should be inspired by his determination and success:

"It was a very, very stressful time, and all the producers developed stress-related health problems in one form or another.  Also, it should be noted, that no distributors had seen...