I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

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.

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

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

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

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