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.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.