For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.