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

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

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

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

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 think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.