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.

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

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

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.