I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.

To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you, and that fear of the unknown. The only way to do that effectively is to really get into the maze, rather than look at the maze from above, so that's where I sort of come at it.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.