I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

I was always interested in films that scar.