You start selling the movie before you make it.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.