There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I think movies do change people's hearts.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.