You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're sleeping, I come away feeling like our minds are not remotely understood by science.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

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

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

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.