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.

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

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.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

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