I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.