If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

The apartments are made for eels.

A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.

I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

Film still looks way better than digital.