If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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)

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

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.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.