I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.