When you see the results, you forget the pain.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

When you see the results, you forget the pain.