I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

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

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.