Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.