This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

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.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

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