On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.