You start selling the movie before you make it.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

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.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.